The Umbrellas Of Sapphire Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

In ancient times, no one used umbrellas because they were all trying to get tan.  Now, everyone is aware that too much exposure to the sun can cause cancer and put holes in your tan like Miloe and Donny have in their legs (shoulders, heads, backs)!  Here (#1) we have the umbrella'd vista from Saphy to Ainsworth...  Of course our crew (#3) shunned the use of the umbrella(s) and sat out uncovered for a chunk of the afternoon, jumping in intermittently to cool off...  (From l. to r.: Ginny, Burnsy, Chrissy, Eddie and LoLa.)

An amazing morning with 15 miles visibility under a hazy hot sun.  The air at checkout was 71.5º and the water was a refreshing 68.5º.  High tide was at 8:08am +4.6' and low tide is at 12:35pm +2.7' going to a rocking +6.2' high at 6:46pm.  There was a SSW swell out of 200º at 3.3' and it was fun with some long walls and crystal clear water!

Carnage!  That's the best way to describe the shorebreak yesterday at Sapphire (#2).  It was head-high in grommet scale and got especially interesting when there would be 10 groms all going for the same closeout.  The kids would get mangled, shake their heads and jump back in...  At one point a rather large grom on a surfboard tried to win the late-takeoff prize and managed to add a 8' piece of shrapnel to the equation...

Anaconda Burke (#4) slicing a long wall on Lake Payette, McCall, Idaho.  They fired up Tim Burke's new boat, filled the left tank to the max and threw up this almost three footer...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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