Another Christmas Eve Thursday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

(#1) Well, look what Santa has in store for all the good South Bay kids this week.  Things will continue to build until New Year's Eve when we've got 4' to 5' swells and some medium periods...  Can we handle?  All will be revealed...

This morning (#2) things were gray and devolved into what some plunks would call rain.  No it wasn't REALLY rain, but it was something like rain, if you had never seen real rain.  Like you had read about it but not really seen it...  We went out and it was cold, like 48.3º in the air and 59.9º in the water.  The fact that there was no sun created a heat sink that drained even the most insulated body.  Meanwhile, the high yuletide was at 5:30am +5.0' and the low yuletide was at 12:33pm +1.0'.  This arrangement made for some backwash that rivaled the stuff we saw a couple of days ago with Mr. Christian riding these faux waves out to past the lineup...  Swells were out of the SW 225º at 2.3' and it was 2' to 2.5'... props to Bacallao, Doc ?, Emilee and the Professor for making the effort... 

Speaking of Emilee and the Professor, here (#3) we have them in matching red and white tops with blue jean pants.  Em&Em and the Professor are 50 years apart at Redondo, but the red and white holds dear...  By the by, she's doing better every time and needs some better waves to really start surfing...

Ah yeah, red and white...  Is it any coincidence that those are Santa's (#4) primary colors?  Actually, NO.  He's not going to be wearing green and yellow like Costa, or blue and yellow like SaMoHi or black and gold like Bishop.  He's on it, sneaking that five, in red and white like it was intended and that's all you need to know...

Merry Christmas to you all!  We love you and we can't begin to describe what an honor it is to know and surf with you!  Have a fabulous holiday and we'll see you in the new year!
✠
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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