Too Many Kooks Tuesday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

There are too many kooks out there.  Maybe the virus has infected typically normal people and turned them into kooks or maybe they were always out there and we never noticed.  Well, this is "Kook Week" on the LBS&CR and we'll start out with the word itself:  kook.  Webster's tells us that it's one who's actions are eccentric, fantastic or insane: screwball. (A shortening and alteration of "cuckoo")  Well, that's wrong...  It actually comes from the Hawaiian word "kukai" which means shit.  So if someone was acting out they called them a "kuk", like, "You stupid shit/kook!"  So in photo #1 we have a bunch of kooks on the Knob Hill lifeguard tower.  How can we tell?  Well, the only people who go near the towers are 1. Lifeguards and 2. people who are in the throes of an emergency.  Surfers make a career out of avoiding the towers...

Overcast this morning, small and blowing onshore.  That's really all you need to know...

Boomfwappa Miller (#2) forward on the pontoon skiff "The Aureola."  His hat was so big he didn't use any suntan lotion all week long...

The crew (#3) at Brothers picnic area for a post surf coffee and burrito.  From L. to R. LoLa, Ronnie, Doc ?, Tarsan and Jetski.  A bit of sad news...  Doc ?'s mom Gertrude, passed away last night.  She was 92 and up until recently was in fairly good shape.  She was still driving a few months ago and making Doc's brother crazy trying to keep track of her.  A good run in any case.  Our condolences to all the family and her friends...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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