Lost Boys & Co.

Lost Boys & Co... A n unbelievable day, even by Sruf Familia standards!  In photo #1 we have Sancho fortifying himself for the Tomatina.  If one cerveza was good, two had to be better.  Look, it was a long walk and you needed to stay hydrated.  At 12 o’clock sharp the festivities began as six dump trucks cam down the Camino about a block apart throwing thousands of tomatoes into, onto and through the crowd.  It looked like the start of the Super Bowl 10k with nowhere to run and tomatoes flying everywhere.  By the time the second truck came through the street was wall to wall tomatoes and the air was thick with tomato mist.  At truck #3 the road was ankle deep in tomato sauce and the playing field became a bit uneven since you couldn’t see the curbs.  We held our positions…   H ermosa is in for a hot one today!  Should be a skosh over 80 in the air and 76.5 in the wa...

Lost Boys & Co... We’re on the train from Santiago de Compostela to Madrid.  It’s down to Sancho, Donna, LoLa & the Professor.  Santiago was great, but was even more fun when Marco, Raquel and the boys showed up. (#1). Then we have a Big Bear and a Baby Bear (#2) flying around the lunch table much to their and to our amusement.  Sancho also played a raucous game of hide-n-seek in the fountain maze with the big brothers Matty and Sal and as they say “A good time was had by all!” Looks like Hermosa is in for some warm weather today!  Supposed to nudge 83 and has you changing up to iced coffee at brekky.  Winds are calm and visibility is 7 miles.  Ocean temperature is 71.2.  High tide is at 9:19am +3.9’ and low tide will be at 1:46pm +2.7’.  It’s a SSW swell out of 202deg at 3.3’ and 2’ and a little more in the surf line.  Maybe you can get Anupa to take you fishing?…  So in the morning we’re o...

Lost Boys & Co...    S o these cutie patooties (#’s 1 & 2) come rolling out of the Atlantico and roll Waikiki style along the sand for many yards.  There is a thriving surf culture in Santander and a number of surf schools.  We were trying to remember if this is where Christian came for a contest a few years ago… I n far away Hermosa Beach there’s 15 miles visibility under partly cloudy skies.  Winds are light out of the south and the sea surface is smooth.  It’s going to be around 75 º and the water is 68.9 º at the buoy.  Another one tide day with the high at 5:19pm +4.82.  More SSW swell out of 195 º at 2.6’ and it’s bigger than Santander but not as good shape… S pending the day in Oviedo where there’s some great architecture and food from the Asturias region.   Like in many spots in Spain they keep building on top of Roman ruins that were there a...

Lost Boys & Co... H ere we are in Santillana Del Mar, which isn’t particularly close to the mar.  Yesterday we visited Santander and had a grand beach day, which included eats and some splashing in the Atlantico.  It was a perfect 1’ and rolling along a broad stretch of flat beach that had some extreme tides. L et’s not forget it’s Doc’s Birthday today (the 20th, we have only a remote idea what time it is where you are!). Looks like a beautiful day in the Southland with partly cloudy skies and 10 miles visibility.  Winds are calm and the sea surface is smooth.  69.6 º in the water and going up to near 80 º in the air.    One high tide today at 4pm +4.7’. It’s a SSW swell out of 199 º at 3.3’ and it’s 2’ and keep looking for the corners…   O n to Commillas then Oviedo.  Commillas has a private residence designed by Gaudi and Oviedo is known for its  medieval old town and gothic cathedral. ...

Lost Boys & Co... S o here we have the statue of San Fermin (#1) whose  feast day is celebrated by the running of the bulls.  This statue is high on the wall near where the bulls begin their run.  This happens to be a copy, but they install the original during the fiesta. You pray that you will be faster than a thousand pounds of bull, replete with horns and hooves and that you won’t be trampled or gored… Low of 67.3 this morning under partly cloudy skies with 10 miles visibility.  It’s still that persistent SSW swell out of 198 at 3.3’, hitting the beach at 2’ to 3’. The water temperature is 69.9.  Low tide was at 6:58am +1.9’ and high tide will be at 1:52pm +4.9’.  Your job is to find a corner or two… Obviously San Fermin is the patron saint of the run, but a close second would be Earnest Hemingway (#2), who brought it to popular attention in “The Sun Also Rises.”  The Pamplona ...

Lost Boys & Co... T ook us a week to get from Majorca through Barcelona to Pamplona.  All that and no secure internet.  Pamplona of course is famous for the running of the bulls and this sculpture (#1) is the bronze depiction of that fiesta.  We always imagined it was a one day event, but it turns out it’s eight days and the bulls run each of those days at 8am.  So get out of the way… Maybe next year? A  bit more swell out of the SSW 197deg at 3.3’ and it’s skidding along the beach at 2’ to 3’ and poor to fair.   The water temperature at the buoy is 69.9, but a tad warmer in the office… W e seem to be following Hemingway’s journey through Spain and we dropped into the Iruna Bar and Sancho took up next to the statue of Papa (#2).  The longer we’re on this trip the more he looks like the man himself! O n to Bilbao and Santilliana Del Mar.  Our first look at ...