Tsetse Fly Tuesday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

We came to this bend in the river (#1) and we were reading about how it got it's name.  Turns out there was a big wedding and at the party after the wedding they got drunk and decided to go swimming.  Well, things were going er, swimmingly, until a crocodile rousted the party and ate the bride.  So technically, she never actually made it to the honeymoon, but they named that section of the river after the event...

Overcast again this morning and 5 miles visibility.  Winds were strong out of the south by 6 to 9kts and the sea surface was ruffled.  The air temperature was 60.0º and the water dipped again to 57.2º, making us relatively unhappy.  High tide was at 11:38am +3.8' and low tide will be at 4:10pm +1.9'.  We have a west swell out of 262º at 3.9' and it was 3' to almost 5' and a bit walled with the low tide...

Abnormal (#2) is about how you feel driving on the wrong side of the road...  Don't ask us to make a right hand turn...

This (#3) is typically what you see of Hippopotamuses during the day.  Then why are they the biggest cause of deaths from wild animals in Africa?  Who (besides drunk revelers) goes swimming in Hippo infested waters?  The simple answer is they usually don't, but at night the hippos come out of the water and roam around.  Like in this cool little town of St. Lucia that looks like Hermosa Beach complete with pizza joints and surfboard shops.  There are signs all over town saying don't walk around after dark because of wandering Hippos.  And that's not the half of it.  If you have a pool and a Hippo decides to jump in - you pay hell trying to get them out.  They can't jump out and if they get pissed, they'll eat anyone trying to remove them.  All of the pools have enclosures around them that look like San Quentin...

This is a Scarab (#4), commonly known as a Dung Beetle.  They lay their eggs in dung and roll them into relatively large balls and let the eggs hatch.  The Egyptians venerated them for ostensibly springing from dung and rolling the ball of the sun across the sky.  They were/are a popular amulet and often contain messages and various inscriptions... like maybe, "I love you, you big sun/dung roller..."
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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