It's A Minion Monday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

The ambient temps were in the low 50's this morning and there was just enough humidity in the low spots to create some great ground fog (#1).  Even the seagulls were grounded.  Too bad we wasted it on this morning, it would've made for some spooky Halloween atmosphere...

Winds were calm and the sea surface was smooth to glassy for our paddle out to the buoy.  We discovered that someone put a thermometer on the marker and it registered 67.5.  It sits at about a foot and a half below the water line, so it's the ambient surface temperature.  The temperature at the Santa Monica Buoy #46221 was 65.3, but it's in the middle of the bay.  High tide was at 5:04am +4.1' and low tide was at 10:02am +3.3' for a minimal tide swing.  There's a SW swell out of 232º at 1.3' and it's almost that big, but not quite surfable in the traditional sense.  We're considering changing our sign-off line to:  "When the Surf Breaks, We Can't Fix It"  But we're working on it...

Our own Marijn Charlie Tholen, (#2) who's nom de plume is Maryncharlie, will be releasing her latest recording "Ain't No Sunshine" this month.  We'll let you know when it's out!  She hinted that she might try to make a trip out to California this January to work on her surfing and get out of the Amsterdam winter...

We had some weird weather Saturday morning as this cloud (#3) built up over Palos Verdes and then proceeded to float over the South Bay and drop some big drops of rain-like fluid on the proceedings.  You could tell that this was Southern California, since people were looking up and saying "What's this?"  Anywhere else people would imagine it was rain...

Happy Hour this week will be announced as soon as the committee convenes...  For now, if you're not doing anything tonight, we'll be at Captain Kidd's at 6pm...
✠
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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