Lost Boys & Co.

Lost Boys & Co...   "I  cold not understand why men, who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other."  Mary Shelley .  Not sure if that was before or after she wrote Frankenstein.  Heard the author Emily Franklin yesterday speak about her latest book, "Love & Other Monsters."  It's about Mary Shelley, Lord Byron (#1 C. Miller shown here reprising his role as the Lord), Percy Shelley, Dr. Polidori and the heretofore forgotten or erased Claire Clairmont.  It takes place in the "summer that never happened" of 1816. Mt. Tambora had erupted, in what is considered the largest eruption in recorded history, and cooled the climate of the entire globe causing snows to fall in Europe in May and June, ruined crops, started famines and provided the perfect backdrop to this story.  If you're into historical fiction, sexual torment, desire, lust, art and betrayal, you might like this read... ...

Lost Boys & Co... T hanks to all the folks who turned out for Annie's Birthday party this morning!  Special thanks to Dane DeLuca who provided the cake with the impressive and appropriate bicycle themed birthday decoration (#1 & #2), party favors (bubble blowing kits) and half-plates that made it look like you were having a reasonable amount of the extremely rich cake.  For those having trouble blowing bubbles, we suggest taking advice from Lauren Bacall in "To Have and Have Not"...  "You know how to (blow bubbles), don't you Steve?  You just put your lips together and blow." M eanwhile, yards away on the beach, the skies were clear and then clouded up and then sprinkled a bit!  Visibility to 10 miles.  Winds were offshore, according to the bubbles, and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 55.0 º  and the water is 63.7 º .  Low tide was at 7:30am -0....

Lost Boys & Co... S aturday past the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium had it's GRAND OPENING!  We got the deluxe tour from Jose Bacallao, who took us behind the scenes.  The standout new addition had to be the seven million dollar life support system!  It included, salinity, ph, temperature and a dozen more things to insure a perfect environment for the sea creatures in their care.  He suggested that if the Familia was interested he could do another tour for those who didn't make it to the opening!  If you're interested let's get together and schedule another trip to Cabrillo.  We could also check out the break there at the point!  A couple of our faves were the seahorses (#1) and the octopus (#2).  In all the places we've snorked, we've never seen a seahorse, but it was fun to see a live one close up.   M ostly sunny this morning with 15 miles visibility.  Winds were light offs...

Lost Boys & Co... O kay, who opened the door to Middle Earth?  Looks like Aragon, Thorin and Balin (#1).  Wait... Maybe it's Matt, the Professor and Kevin doing the time warp from Bishop Surf teams of the last century... S tart of the All Stars this morning at 38th St. El Porthole.  14 miles visibility under partly cloudy skies.  Winds were offshore 3 to 4kts and it was a chilly 53 º  and 62.6 º  in the water. High tide at 10:06am +4.4' and low tide follows at 3:32pm +0.9'.  It's SSW swell out of 209 º  at 3.0' and it was 3' to 4' with the tide mushing it out as the morning wound on.  Semis and finals next week... T hinking of the warm water and all that means and then the Times runs a story this morning that is designed to make your hair stand on end.  In no particular order (considering the water is 7.7 º  warmer than usual) you might expe...

Lost Boys & Co... G rabbed this frame off of SurfLine (#1) of these two handsome chaps walking down to take a dip.  We cannot tell you how absolutely preposterous this is considering how much one of the participants dislikes any water cooler than 70 º .  Of course the fellow carrying the fins, on the left, is the famous aquanaut Jose Bacallao and he would jump in and frolic in 50 º  water.  They had a bit of body surfing and then retired to Brothers Burritos for the best B/Avocado ever made... C loudy skies and 16 miles visibility.  Winds were light onshore 1 to 3kts and the sea surface was smooth with a wee bit of texture.  The air temp was 57.0 º  and the water is lurking around 62.5 º , although Bacallao's watch said it was 67 º we thought that might be a product of his hot wrist.  Our watch said 9:25...  High tide at 9:17am +4.7' and low tide follows at 3:00pm +0.5'....

Lost Boys & Co... W e were reading a comment on the recent Fish & Game Commission meeting and one of the comments was "WTF."  Having just glanced at the calendar we thought "Wednesday, Thursday Friday?"  What?  Recalls thinking "LOL" was "Lots of Love."  What... M eanwhile, there were some distant clouds on the horizontal and mostly clear skies above our pointy heads (#1).  Visibility 10 miles.  Winds were trying to be light onshore all morning and finally decide around 10am to actually blow.  Kinda looked a bit morning sick and bumped with an almost imperceptible red tint.  The air temperature was 55.0 º  and the water is 62.2 º .  High tide was at 8:33am +4.8' and low tide will be at 2:33pm +0.3'.  It's a 3.0' SSW swell out of 195 º  and it's hitting close to the beach at 3'.  Sheamus showed us that there were still some rideable bumps out there (#2). ...