Christmas Eve 2018 Monday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

At Christmas time one might have a tendency to look back at the year and muse about "all of the places and all of the faces" that we have traveled together.  This group in particular (#1), warms the cockles of our greasy little hearts...  Yes, warm and toasty in Nica...

Fun high tide waves this morning, under cloudy skies and offshore winds.  The sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 51.9 and the water is holding at 62.1.  High tide was at 9:33am +6.8' and low tide will be at 4:48pm -1.4'.  We have a WSW swell out of 240º at 3.6', but it was fatter than that and we got some shoulder to head high rollers that ended up in a shorebreak that would challenge all the work your chiropractor did on you last week...

Apparently all of these Himalayan salt lamps (#2) are from a "rare" vein in the Himalayan mountains.  Their advantages are too numerous to mention, but you can reap the benefits of negative ions, sleep more soundly, not run into things when you get out of bed, shrink your prostate, learn Tibetan, commune with the cosmos and gargle raw ocean water with no negative side effects.  They even have them in dark gray, for people who can't stand the light...  If you're out there communing with the cosmos, how much light do you need anyway?

When you're sitting at your desk, missing the ocean, digesting your lunch, waiting for five o'clock, you can watch this Sands of Time® (#3) alternative to a snow globe, create drifts of light, dark and glitter.  Shifting desert sands, mountains, clouds, rain, oceans, smoke, the fires approaching Malibu, the destruction of Carthage, an incredibly small table tennis match and a reoccurring profile of Richard M. Nixon (how do they do it?)  On second thought, leave this at home.  You'll be fired in a week if you take it to work...

And then of course, Christmas...  How does Santa do it all in one night?  We're not sure, but this (#4) is what he does later in the morning...  As for us, we'll be hying ourselves off to the frozen fringes of Colorado to visit the Boomfwappa's of Owl Roost Rd.  We shall return in time for the New Year and our annual gathering at the Laurel Tavern.  Merry Christmas!
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!




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