Lost Boys & Co.

  Lost Boys & Co... T he local "PetroSol" gasoline station had this great mural (#1) on one side of the parking lot. The PetroSol is a great player in the community.  Besides gasoline and automotive fluids and service, they have a restaurant and a large screen TV that shows major sporting events for the community!  There can be two or three hundred people tail-gating there for a big futbol game... S unny this morning, but the fires have created a low lying haze that's over the water so visibility was 10 miles at best.  Winds were out ofthe south by 3kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 45.5 and the water is 62.6.  High tide was at 10:23am +6.5' and low tide was at 5:41pm -1.0'.  We have a SSW swell out of 200º at 3.0', but it was a bit smaller than that.  We'll call it 2' and smoky... F or the most part the roads are just okay.  The worst roads are on the west part of the island and they are full of potholes, lands...

  Lost Boys & Co... T he island of Roatan floats in the western Caribbean, below Belize, east of Honduras.  It includes part of the great coral reef system that starts near Belize and ends up with the islands south of Roatan proper.  You can pretty quickly ascertain that there isn't much wave action in this part of the world.  All of the fetches are relatively small, hundreds not thousands of miles, or blocked by not inconsequential barriers like Cuba or the Antilles.  But on the other hand it includes some of the best diving/snorkeling in the world.  Honestly, that was enough to pique our interest, but we also thought, "Well there might be something rideable out there!"  (#1) So here's our accommodations at Infinity Bay.  The reef is close enough to swim to and on the outside the wall drops down to about 170' and then like 700' beyond that.  When you get to that edge, it's like you've jumped off into the Grand Canyon and are flying over...

  Lost Boys & Co... O kay partners!  We're back from the hinterlands.  Although riding herd, bucking hay and mending fence isn't exactly our cup of tea, we had a great time.  Visited the Ewing ranch "Southfork" (#1) in N.E. Texas and paid our respects to J.R. and the Ewings that have passed (#2).  We managed to get some of the locals to join us for a photo op (#3) and here we have (back row, L. to R:  LoLa, the Professor, Fast Nathan, Joey the Sensei.  front row: JRS, Lilly Panda Cheeseburger, Anaconda Burke and Suzi.) S ome good ones moving through fast this morning (#4) and this one looked better than most.  The high tide helped slow things down a skosh.  A few clouds with 15 miles visibility.  Winds were light offshore by 3.3kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air was a brisk 50.2 and the water is cool at 61.7.  High tide was at 8:49pm +7.1' and low tide was at 3:57pm -1.4'.  We have a west swell out of 260º at...

  Lost Boys & Co... P atrick Malloy's tonight for happy hour.  Come say howdy to Patrick himself! M anny LaGod is one of the famous Ali'is that backed Don Ho.  One night Duke Kahanamoku strolled in and gave Manny this engraved Zippo cigarette lighter.  He's got stories from here to Guam!  He's promised to send us a few pics from that era and we'll fo' shore post dem... D rizzly and only a couple of miles visibility this morning at checkout.  Winds were brisk out of the SW by 7kts and the sea surface was chopped up.  The air temp was 61.9 and the water is 63.3.  High tide was at 7:57am +6.1' and low tide followed at 2:47pm -0.2', leading off some p.m. minus tides for the next few days.  We have a fluctuating SW to south swell out of 175º at 2.3' and it was almost that...  Despite the small waves Redondo High went up against Peninsula and emerged victorious!  Y et another Anthony Renna tube shot!  This is one of those that ...

  Lost Boys & Co... W e had a couple of entries into the caption contest of that Nazaré shorebreak explosion. From Boomfwappa: 1: Any body see a blue swim fin??                          2: I gotta PEE!! From Big Daddy: Professor, that thar is what ya call a thawed avalanche!!! C loudy this morning and we discovered that you have to walk all the way on the pier to the berm before you can see the surf.  That's gotta be another 25 or thirty feet farther than our typical spot!  Outrageous!  10 miles visibility and it's supposed to sprinkle tomorrow.  Winds were calm and the sea surface was glassy.  The air temp was 56.5 and the water is 64.8.  High tide was at 7:31am +6.0' and low tide will follow at 2:13pm +-0.0'.  We have a SSW swell out of 202º at 2.0'.  That translates to 1' and poor and it's not looking promising for at least a couple of days... T omorrow morning will be Re...

  Lost Boys & Co... T his is the bar in Havana where we got the free drink for showing the barkeep how to make a proper martini🍸.  If we had noticed what great legs he had we might have complemented him...  Wait...  No, we would have kept that to ourselves... H azy sun on this fall morning with 10 miles visibility.  Winds were offshore by 2.1kts and glassy conditions.  The air temperature was 56.9 and the water is 65.7.  High tide was at 7:03am +5.9' and low tide is at 1:37pm +0.3'.  We have a SSW swell out of 193º at 3.0' and it was 2' to 3' and okay to fun... T his shot of what appears to be a Ford station wagon (#2) doesn't even come close to the record... I f you have a caption for photo #3 please share it.  "Oh shit!" in no way comes close...  What would you do?  Where do you go?  You're in knee high water and do you imagine your gonna dive under this monster?  Don't scream, you're gonna need all that air... H ap...

  Lost Boys & Co... T here are probably a lot of reasons to go see "Murder on the Orient Express" but as far as we're concerned it was worth the price of admission just to see Hercule Poirot's mustaches (#'s 1 & 2.)  Amazing!  Fabulous!  Bitchin'!  He even had a facial mask to protect them while he slept!  We strained to see if they were pasted on during the close-ups, but for all it's worth they look like Branagh grew them for the part...  Okay, we should'a paid better attention - we're not even sure who the murderer was... A beautiful fall morning here in LaLa Land!  10 miles visibility and only a few laggardly clouds.  The air was a chilly 51.5 and the water was comparatively warm at 64.8.  High tide was at 6:34am +5.7' and low tide will be at 12:58pm +0.7'.  We have a 2.6' SSW swell out of 200º true.  It was 2' to 3' and some pretty fun little growlers.  Capitan Donaldo, Morgan and the Professor we're catching...