Tuck 'N Roll Tuesday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

Architecture says a lot about the way people see themselves or how others want them to be seen.  During the 30's and 40's Mussolini wanted the Italian people to feel like the state was powerful and the individual was small.  #1 is the Italian Post Office in Palermo.  Looks like they had the psychology down solid...

Gray this morning with the wind strong from the WSW at 6 to 8kts, bumping up the sea surface.  5 miles visibility.  The air was a damp 58.1º and the water is 61.3º.  High tide was at 7:42am +5.2' and low tide was at 1:42pm +1.2'.  We have an incredible disconnect in what the buoy says and what we observed.  The buoy said that there was a WSW swell out of 240º at 2.6', which would have lead us to believe that the surf today would be about as big as it was yesterday, but probably adversely affected by the wind.  Well, the wind did chop things up, but the waves were in the 4' to 6' range with some macking outsiders! 

Then there's art.  Italy's pretty famous for their art.  So they built this fountain (#2) in this middle of this piazza and placed all these classical nude statues around the fountain.  The only problem was that on one side of the piazza was a nunnery.  Initially the nuns would come out and clothe the statues, but when that didn't work as well as they thought, they started knocking the penises off of the offending statuary!  They called the square "The Piazza of Shame" and it's a favorite of visiting nuns.  We thought that was a joke until these sisters showed up (#3) and were chuckling about the whole thing.  This has only been going on for 300 years...

We'd see murals and photographs of these two guys (#4) all over Sicily and we finally asked who they were.  It's Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino two famous prosecutors and anti-mafia magistrates.  Rather than go after the Mafia in traditional shoot-em-out style, Falcone decided to follow the money trail.  It lead him and his group to numerous Mafia drug trafficking operations and bringing to justice dozens of Mafia criminals.  But like so many others who challenged the Mafia, Falcone and Borsellino were assassinated months apart in 1992.  The blast that killed Falcone, was so powerful it registered on local seismic monitors.  They were seen as heroes and were honored posthumously with monuments all over Sicily.
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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