No Phooey Friday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

We find it totally amazing that he word "phooey" didn't make it into the dictionary until 1929... 

There's a lot of this going around (#1).  Fortunately, the green part of it doesn't last that long.  Donnie got so sick all of his clothes exploded off of him, so he kinda looked like the Hulk.  He scared Oscar.  LoLa passed out 5 times and spent part of the evening admiring the design on Chinda's floor. The Professor (not pictured) avoided the obligatory emesis and instead camped out in the bathroom until the worst was over...

Meanwhile, it was cloudy and cool this morning, with 5 miles visibility and 53.7º air.  The water is holding at 62.2.  Low tide was at 8:33am +3.1' and high tide follows at 1:18pm +3.8', so not a whole lot of difference in the tides today.  That all changes next week and Christmas week when we get some wild tidal differentiations.  We have a WSW swell out of 257º at 3.6' and we have no idea how the swell can be 3.6' and we have waves that are 4' to 6'.  But that's what it was...

Mr. Christian Stutzcanhang, hanging stutz (#2).  This looks like a perfect wave on a perfect day at the pier, but it wasn't that good.  The problem is that he makes it look that good.  You paddle out and proceed to get worked for an hour, while he's flying around hanging ten, five or whatever...  It is an excellent character builder...  For you...

This weird haze came creeping in this afternoon (#3).  It's more pronounced if you look over the breakwall and see it embracing Hermosa and beyond.  It wasn't fog, or smog, or smoke, but it was at least as creepy as something that might come floating across a heath...  "What do you make of it Holmes?"  "Swamp gas, my dear Watson."
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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