No Not The Ecosystem Friday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...
Okay, 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...

Start 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 53º and 62.6º 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 209º 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...

Thinking 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 7.7º warmer than usual) you might expect:  major disruption of the ecosystem, mass die-offs of seabirds, fishery disasters, kelp degradation, whale entanglements, sea lion starvation, fish migration and harmful algal blooms.  Weird sharkey shit and lots of jellyfish.  So there.  Sounds like the warning on the drugs they advertise on TV...

No we don't like Mira Costa, but we do like Milly (#2).  She got first in her heat with a 10.63 and will be in the finals next week.
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!
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