Way Flat Wednesday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

"When the surf is uncooperative, the uncooperative go paddling."  Here (#1) we have the crew, Jah, Tarsan, Ronnie, LoLa, Burnsy and the Professor plying the waters of King Harbor and beyond for a little diversion due to lack of surf.  To her credit Jah kept her streak alive by galloping into some knee slappers at Ainsworth, while LoLa and Burnsy scampered down to the jetty and back.  Tarsan and the Professor threw caution to the wind and shot the Monstadt, Horseshoe and Kincaid's piers in one fell swoop and managed to escape without raising much attention. 

Why all this hoomalimali?  Because even though the day was sunny and bright, winds were offshore and conditions were glassy, it was flat as a flannel cake.  The air was 58.8º as the crew pushed off, but rapidly warmed as they headed into the sunlight.  The water is 64.6º and only Tarsan braved the chill.  It's a SW swell out of 225º at 2.3' and it was less than half that on the sand.

No surf contest tomorrow due to lack of surf, but all eyes are on the forecast for next week.

Oh yeah, speaking of next week...  We'll be heading out to the land of the Pharaoh's to see if outside Cairo really breaks, if there's a tidal bore on the Nile and if you can tow-in surf behind a felucca!  Yes, Egypt!  It looks like we probably won't be reporting consistently, but we'll try to drop some Instagram's and send some pics.  Also we'll try for some first person reporting from where history pretty much began...  Back the beginning of December...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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