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Good Is The Enemy Of Great Friday Surf & Culture Report

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Lost Boys & Co... I t's (#1) got palm trees, bamboo writing, Tikis (with various grimaces), a sunset and tribal pinstriping.  This would be perfect on Kalakawa Blvd., but no, it's on Chinden Ave. in Boise, Idaho.  How they got that across the Pacific we'll never know. L ooked like it might happen later...  It was like this.  Cloudy with 7 miles visibility.  Winds were light offshore in the 1 to 3kt. range and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temp was 55.5 º  and the water at the orange buoy was 62.5 º .  Really high tide at 7:29am +7.1' and a really low tide follows at 2:56pm -1.9'.  It's a west swell out of 269 º  at 3.0' and it was 2' to 3' slappers on the beach.  But the tide was dropping and it looked like it might start breaking a bit farther out.  Doc and Lego-Man gave it a go, along with various boogers, but it was only the boogies that got serious. W as a great low tide yesterday (#2) afternoon with painterly cl...
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Welcome To 2026 Thursday Surf & Culture Report

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Lost Boys & Co... S o we've got 52 more Thursdays ahead of us to get it right.  You might not even be quite sure what that is right now, but we're thinking it will come to you.  This is the season for Epiphany(s) so yours might be on it's way... B etween storm sessions the pier was kinda smirking at the forecasted intensity of the weather. (#1)  It could'a been thinking "You should'a seen it in '83!  THAT was a storm." C onditions were in flux all day long.  Visibility has ranged from a quarter of a mile at checkout to 20+ miles this afternoon under, cloudy, partly cloudy, clear skies.  Rain started the day and moved through pretty quickly.  The air temp was 56.0 º  and the water is 62.4 º .  High tide was at 6:41am +6.9' and low tide followed at 2:10pm -1.6', for a great tidal shift.  A ragged combo swell out of the SSE (157 º ) at 3.0' and it was 2' to 3', mostly unorganized. F or many years we gave out "Sruf Familia...
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