Trump's Last Stand Tuesday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

#1).  This is a good reason to shake your boardbag before you stick your hand inside.  Although these centipedes have hundreds (?) of legs, they only have one mouth, but that seems to be more than enough!  They have a pair of jaw-like venomous claws that can make you feel like you've been burned.  Now the one we encountered in Hawaii was in the 2" to 3" range, but we discovered that the Scolopendra gigantea can reach 11" long and can sting the shit out of you!

Cloudy, trying to decide if overcast is a possibility.  Less than 10 miles visibility and offshore winds that have intensified during the day, peaking at 24 to 30kts in the afternoon, cleaning up a lot of loose palm fronds (#2), making Catalina Ave. a bit dicey to navigate.  Always interesting to see the whitecaps running away from shore (#3).  The air was 54.1º and the water is holding steady at 59.7º.  Low tide is at 8:06am +2.3' and high tide will be at 1:16pm +3.3'.  We have a west swell out of 259º at 4.9' and it was 2' to 5' depending on the tide and location.  StormSurf (#4) is telling us that we have one more day of swell before things begin to drop off, but the wind today looked like it was pushing things down quite significantly...

You have to love Hawaiian names.  Our server at the Beach House was known to us as Kawai (Ka-Vai), but her given name is Kawaikailiaolani, which, suffice to say, we never called her (#5).  We were afraid to ask her, her last name...

This year, instead of going to the inauguration, we plan to go surfing and celebrate at the beach...  There will be champagne to go with your burritos... especially now, since most of the staff might become eligible to become citizens in their lifetimes...
✠
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





Popular posts from this blog

Duke Of Wellington Wednesday Surf & Culture Report

Image
Lost Boys & Co... P rofessor, This is a shot taken last week at a secret spot that is less than 30 miles away from you guys. Any guesses?  My buddy Dave sent it from Salta Verde Point on the backside of Catalina. Only accessible by boat or if you know someone with the key. Tip: The guy in the pic is the guy with the key! Sea Wolf... S o, apparently if you decide to leave Avalon and head to the backside you might score on a south swell.  For some reason this place looks like there might be some rocks on the inside.  No indications of that other than the boils following the guy with the key... C loudless skies this morning with 20+miles visibility.  Winds were off to 2.2kts and the sea surface had a residual bump that held all day.  The air temperature was 79.3˚ and the water was 66.4˚, apparently affected by the wind and upwelling.  High tide was at 6:55am +3.9' and low tide will be at 11:46am +2.8' for a little less than a foot differential.  There's a SW swell out of
Read more

Wasting Away In Margariitaville Saturday Surf & Culture Report

Image
Lost Boys & Co... S ancho, on this morning's Sruf Familia thread said it best, "Somber rainy day for Jimmy."  J immy Buffett died Friday, September 1.  He was 76 years old and had recently been struggling with health issues.  A Lost Boy of the first order his music was the sound-track for our lives. B ut he might have said it best: "But there's one particular harbor/ So far yet so near/ Where I see the days as they fade away/ And finally disappear." S ail on Jimmy Buffett and we hope on the corner of that one particular harbor there's a wave that you can surf through eternity.  Aloha Jimmy... ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it" The Professor!!
Read more

Not Forest Hills Friday Surf & Culture Report

Image
Lost Boys & Co... W ho's behind those Foster-Grants?  Well, we'll bet that he's NEVER worn a pair of F-G's.  Are those Oliver People's?  Cartier's, Garrett Leight's?  We'll say Tom Ford's and he should be their poster boy.  Yep, it's Jetski in the arena at the US Open.  Looking rather trim in his court-side togs, we're waiting for his description of the action... W e continue our assault on some of the smallest waves ever ridden!  We'll have to check the Guinness book, but we think we're on to something.  So it was ten miles visibility under partly cloudy skies and winds were offshore by 5 to 7kts.  The3 air temp was 63.9º and the water was 70.7º at the ever popular #46221 Santa Monica Buoy.  High tide was at 11:01am +5.5' and low tide follows at 4:52pm +0.7'.  It turns out we observed that low tide and even with the afternoon south wind howling around 10kts, Sapphire still looked fairly smooth.  We had a south swell out o
Read more