Macadamia Nut Monday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

The Fourth of July wouldn't be complete without the annual Ironman event.  Benefiting Burgie Benz's favorite charity of the year, our fellow Lost Boys gathered around Mr. Christian as he completed his circuit and threw up ALOT...  From L. to R.:  Grant Ibrahim, Frankie Paisano, Jah Morgan, Mr. Christian and Ché (as himself!)

Fun this morning with clear skies and offshore winds.  Really low tide at 5:15am -1.5' and high tide will be at 11:50 +4.0'.  We have a SSW swell out of 204º at 3.3' and it was 3' to a solid 4' with some nice corners.  Water temps are up to 67.1 and should get a couple of degrees warmer during the day...  Looking good for mañana!  Join up!

Then we have this shot (#2) of the entrance to Newport Harbor.  The reason it doesn't look like the entrance to Newport Harbor is that there are waves on both sides of the jetty!  Both the Wedge side (which was about 15') and the harbor side which was about 10 to 12'.  They had to close the harbor entrance until things calmed down.  Marty Burke Jr. has lived on Balboa Island for about 20 years and this is the first time he's seen both sides break!  A little higher tide and you could've surfed over the rocks...

On the Fourth we headed down to Newport to do some stand-up paddling on the bay.  We had a bad strap that needed a pair of pliers to thread it through the cleat.  So we set the pliers down on the roof (#3) and attached the back straps.  We then proceeded to freeway down to Newport and Beacon Bay.  At one point we were doing 84mph to catch Anaconda Burke in the fast lane.  When we got to Marty's house we went to take the boards off the car and there were the pliers, just where we left them...  We did one of those soccer missed-goal-grab-your-head and rock-side-to-side.  Then we laughed until we realized that if those buggers had fallen off and bounced on the freeway they could've impaled someone and left a swath of destruction down the 405...  shit...

They have an annual 4th of July parade in Newport harbor.  Since Newport and Orange County are a bastion of Trump supporters, there were tons of boats with Trump flags and banners...  The only trouble was that when they turned around on their way back, the flags didn't read so well (#4) and it was real easy to get their collective goats by simply asking:  Who the hell is  P MURT?  Just like Fred Tisue we found it funnier if we kept repeating it...  Who the fuck is P MURT?  There were lots of boats...  P MURT?
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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