Southbay Windage Wednesday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

Why was Dubrovnik never captured by raiding armies?  Well, one good reason might be that you have to climb up these steep cliffs (#1) and then scale the city walls...  There are still a host of guys down at the bottom of the sea below the cliffs wearing full armor...

To start off with a bang - the surf was basically flat.  Joey Lombardo says a south swell is coming and it could bend our way with a little luck.  If not, El Porto will have 40,000 people.  Still gray in the mornings and cool.  High tide was at 9:50am +4.3' and low tide will be at 2:41pm +2.2'.  The swell is out of the south at 2' and let's hope Joey is right!  In desperation we SUP-ed this morning and Bacallao gave us some pointers on the finer aspects of paddling...

Croatia has had a number of excellent basketball players make it to the NBA.  Have you ever noticed that they seem to always break to the left?  We might have the answer why...  (#2)

#3 Deserves a bit of an explanation.  At the base of the palace there's this stone that sticks out about 4" from the wall.  Typically only children, women and the pure of heart can stand on it and not fall off.  The Professor studied it for awhile and noticed that everyone was facing the wall when they tried to make their attempts.  He decided it would be just like hanging ten, so he had Tarzan help him up and he stuck it long enough to get a couple of photos.  Everything is true, except the part about the "pure of heart."

It's decided!  Laurel Tavern for Happy hour this week.  5:30 Friday for your cultural and gastronomic edification...

✠
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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