Lost Boys & Co.

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 ...

Lost Boys & Co... W e'll be heading out this Sunday (more on that a bit later), but we didn't want to have Morgan's (#1) birthday go unheralded!  It's actually the 10th, but as Ronnie has demonstrated, there's no shame in celebrating on multiple days.  She remains our hero and we wish her many more trips around our mid-sized, but not insignificant star... "N o testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that it's falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it is endeavours to establish." David Hume (#2) D avid might have been holding forth on the miraculously small size of the surf that now caresses our shores.  Though it's a beautiful day and there are some picturesque clouds gliding along the firmament, winds are already onshore and the sea surface has a pronounced wind tack.  The air temp was 68.0 º  ...

Lost Boys & Co... Okay, so we can’t go in the front door because this (#1) coatrack of an ungulate is blocking the entrance.  Sorry, this is a noble beast and he is merely asserting his natural inclinations to sit on a concrete stoop in the middle of the forest.  Fresh from watching bison run down tourists in Yellowstone and throw them into the woods, we imagined we’d give this knife-hoofed buck plenty of room.  So, we went around back.  There were TWO on the back stoop… We retired to the beach… W e’re in Idaho, right?  We often call our colleagues at the beach to make sure our reporting is accurate and timely.  Should you get one of these calls, you don’t have to answer should you be indisposed.  Like doing your make-up, getting dressed or sitting on the can.  We will not name na...