Another All Saints Day Friday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

In a hurry to get to the Halloween party at Laurel Tavern last evening, the Professor FaceTimed® LoLa to tell her that the throttle on his electric velocipede was stuck and he was flying through Hermosa on his way to points north.  She caught this screen grab (#1) in the middle of his attempts to deploy his parachute...

Still kinda smokey out there, so the sun is hazy and we have about 10 miles visibility.  Winds are fluky out of the NE by 9kts and the sea surface has a bit of ripple to it.  The air temp was a chilly 47.8 and the water is 64.8.  Low tide was at 5:54am +2.8' and high tide follows at 12:13pm +5.5'.  We have a SW swell out of 232º at 2.0' and it's, for all intents and purposes, flat...

Here (#2) we have Dairy Larry and Jetski toasting the evening at North End where Jetski volunteered to tend bar for the evening...  No, no, no...  Actually, Jetski's costume was a bartender from North End.  It was so clever, that about a third of the patrons at Laurel came in because they thought they were already at North End!

Our sobrinho and star shaper José was a one-eyed pirate, with his classy wench Mona in tow (#3).  Great costumes!

Middle Linebacker, from New Jersey, now playing as a senior-senior-senior for USC, Ed Scale.  Shown here (#4) about to exit the tunnel, he got so winded putting on the pads that he passed out and went back to bed...  Now explain to John Houston Jr. where his uniform went...

Various captions for this photo (#5) taken by Jetski proving that mermaids/mermen do in fact exist.  He claims it was a merman.  We maintain it's a Portuguese mermaid...

Turns out that the burnout rate from last night's party was so complete that Happy Hour is rescheduled for next week...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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