Monitor Lizard Monday Surf & Culture Report



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Okay, If Anupa looks at this report, we suggest she just skips over the pic.  On our way to visit the mysterious James Thompson House in Bangkok (Thompson was a silk merchant who just happened to work for the CIA, mysteriously disappearing one afternoon on a trip to Cambodia.)  We stopped by this park because LoLa had read that one might spot monitor lizards there.  You can imagine our surprise when we hopped out of a cab and ran right into this clutch of lizards feasting on some shrimp that had been left on the bank of the lake.  There were probably twenty and we saw more in the water (they are semi-aquatic.)  They're not poisonous, but they look like they should be and they have snaky tongues that are forked and kinda creepy...  Obviously, LoLa was ecstatic...

Blew like a gale last night and suddenly quit about 8am, only to start again in earnest about 9 and ramp up to a white cap style blow.  Partly cloudy and 20 miles visibility.  The air was posted as 46, but warned that it felt like 37.  The water blew down to 55.6 and that is really not making us happy.  Low tide was at 5:28am +0.1' and high tide is at 11:28am +4.0'.  We have a west swell out of 263degrees at 9' and it was 8' to 10' slapping the end of the pier.

"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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