Third Rate Thursday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

Spicy Monkey hobnobbing with Jah Morgan and Señor Bacallao. (#1 Photo credit:  Journal of Eosinophilic Primates, Barry Santos)  He's been making the rounds and spreading holiday cheer...

Rain, hard at times, throughout the day.  Winds were predominately offshore, gusting to 10kts and the sea surface is a bit wind whipped, but not choppy.  The air temp was 53.3, but the wind has driven the wind chill down below that.  The water is 61.2 and expect it to take a dive as the front moves through.  High tide was at 7:54am +6.4' and low tide will follow at 2:58pm -0.7.  We have a shifting WNW swell out of 290º currently at 4.9'.  It's 3' to 6' depending on your location and there should be some waves in the 3' to 5' range mañana with favorable winds...  Check it out...

Raining like crazy this morning and Jah Morgan decides that we should take a look at the surf.  It's windy, it's raining and it's wet in and out of the water.  But you know she and Stutzcanhang are going to go out...  That's okay...  When we get down to the pier we see this guy on the tractor in the shallows (#'s 2 & 3), doing who-the-hell-knows-what??  If you've ever walked in that area after it's rained, you know that the sand is hyper-saturated with water from the drain and water from the surf.  You go running down to jump in the water and you sink above your knees!  It's where they got the idea for quicksand.  So he's busy moving sand and water around to no discernible purpose and he's getting pretty close to getting stuck on the odd set wave.  Normally we would've stayed to see what would become of all this, but we'd had enough...  There's a real possibility that we might have a new reef!  We suggest calling it "Caterpillar's."

Patrick Malloy's for your Happy Hour pleasure this week...  5:30 (on the patio if we can stand it.)
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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