Almost Half-Full Monday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

We were told this morning that it didn't make any difference if the glass was half-full or half-empty, as long as you had some left in the bottle... 

Fo' real mermaids (#1), Sue, Jane and Nancy after their swim this morning.  Now you've got your Polar Bears and all those Wim Hof devotees, but these women swim all year long and you can hear them laughing and cavorting as they splash past us.  They're all in fabulous shape, but we have to give props to Sue, who does it all in her swim suit without the aid of a wetsuit!  She's from England and she must have hot tea in those veins!

This weekend we had some really good waves.  Saturday, we caught this pic of Zach (#2) on one of the perfect lefts that came through south of the office.  Sunday we caught Ricki Kramer (#3) unwinding his leash before he hit it.  You can see some of the peaks rolling through.  Our last storm really replenished some of the sandbars that were lacking and digging some sweet holes in which to paddle out...

This morning it was gray (#4) and trying to decide whether or not to rain.  There were a few drops when the crew hit it, but the winds were offshore and burnished the surface to a platinum glow.  The air temperature was 54.1º and the water is 57.7º and it would be nice if it decided to warm up a couple of points.  Low tide was at 5:13am +1.6' and high tide will be at 11:08am +5.1'.  We have a west swell out of 260º at 2.6' and it was roughly twice that, like 3' to 4' with an occasional ear tickler.

Check out the last issue of the Easy Reader, that features Nick "Flinch" Padilla.  We thought he was kidding when he said he had made the cover of the ER.  An interesting story and compelling in it's own right...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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