It's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall Wednesday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

People come from all over the world to take photos of the Lighthouse from this vantage point (#1)...  Well, not recently because the world's been mostly closed, but it's definitely a destination...  The light seemed to be so right, we stopped in the middle of getting out of a wetsuit to take this snap...

Under overcast skies, clearing early in the day we had 10 miles visibility.  Light onshore winds left the sea surface smooth and lightly rolled.  The air temperature was 63.5º and the water was nice at 70.0º.  Low tide wasn't that low at 7:58am +2.9' and high tide will be at 2:40pm +5.3'.  We have a SSW swell out of 192º at 2.0' and that's supposed to be increasing as we skid towards the weekend...

You CAN (and probably will) lose your balance (#2), especially if you ride on the south side of the pier.  You'd think that being able to surf would help with so many things, but the truth of the matter is that it helps with surfing, but not as much with everything else.  People actually say things like, "Oh you can surf - sky diving will be second nature!"  Or "If you can surf, riding this motorcycle a hundred miles an hour is simple."  Or our personal favorite "Oh yeah, climbing up to the top of these rickety ladders in the Bandolier Archeological Site and trying not to fall three hundred feet is easy, you surf don't you?"

The Professor (#3) sneaking on one of yesterday's teeny waves.  Not sure he ever got his hair wet.  He's not that good, it was that shallow...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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