Rain Is Good For The Crops Thursday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

Look at these two people (#1).  On the left we have the Professor, wearing a rather provocative pink Hawaiian shirt and waiting patiently in the salon at Gate 2 in Puerto Escondido.  Next to him we have this, obviously disgusted, young lady in a fur lined parka trying desperately to ignore him.  It was 85º in Puerto on this day and she also had a blanket and pillow with her.  We hope she was going to St. Petersburg, Moscow or Anchorage via Mexico City (where at this time it was 76º.)  After a series of these photos and the Professor referring to her as the "Ice Queen" she probably had good cause to look a bit disgusted...

Rain, rain, rain...  Visibility was less than a mile and winds have been fluky all day.  The sea is sporting an irregular choppiness.  The air temp was 57.3 and the water is 60.4.  Low tide was at 5:58am +-0.0' and high tide follows at 12:02pm +4.8'.  We have a 3.3' swell out of the south 185º and it's currently too oblique to give us any waves...  Check it mañana, although there's a fair amount of run-off in this last dump...

We see you're wondering to where all the Aztec gold went.  Well a fair amount of it stayed in the New World and there's a chunk in the Cathedral in Mexico City (#2).  One of the side altars is done entirely in 14 carat gold, meaning that it's at least 58% pure gold!

Before we left, Capitán Donaldo did his trick of making a puffer fish regurgitate the sun (#3).  We'd seen it before, so it was no big deal, but we thought you might like it...


This might have been our favorite tube of the trip...

Tonight at Laurel Tavern for the inaugural Thursday evening Happy Hour at 5:30pm.  Despite event cancellations and countries closing their doors, we're hanging in there, imagining that 250 people are NOT going to show up...  If they do we're asking #250 to close the door behind him/her.
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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