Rain Is Good For The Crops Thursday Surf & Culture Report
Lost Boys & Co...
Look at these two people (#1). On the left we have the Professor, wearing a rather provocative pink Hawaiian shirt and waiting patiently in the salon at Gate 2 in Puerto Escondido. Next to him we have this, obviously disgusted, young lady in a fur lined parka trying desperately to ignore him. It was 85º in Puerto on this day and she also had a blanket and pillow with her. We hope she was going to St. Petersburg, Moscow or Anchorage via Mexico City (where at this time it was 76º.) After a series of these photos and the Professor referring to her as the "Ice Queen" she probably had good cause to look a bit disgusted...
Rain, rain, rain... Visibility was less than a mile and winds have been fluky all day. The sea is sporting an irregular choppiness. The air temp was 57.3 and the water is 60.4. Low tide was at 5:58am +-0.0' and high tide follows at 12:02pm +4.8'. We have a 3.3' swell out of the south 185º and it's currently too oblique to give us any waves... Check it mañana, although there's a fair amount of run-off in this last dump...
We see you're wondering to where all the Aztec gold went. Well a fair amount of it stayed in the New World and there's a chunk in the Cathedral in Mexico City (#2). One of the side altars is done entirely in 14 carat gold, meaning that it's at least 58% pure gold!
Before we left, Capitán Donaldo did his trick of making a puffer fish regurgitate the sun (#3). We'd seen it before, so it was no big deal, but we thought you might like it...
Tonight at Laurel Tavern for the inaugural Thursday evening Happy Hour at 5:30pm. Despite event cancellations and countries closing their doors, we're hanging in there, imagining that 250 people are NOT going to show up... If they do we're asking #250 to close the door behind him/her.
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"The Professor!!