E's Surf Report

small today

damn...

Did anyone else notice the large patch of really warm water @ Lindy this morning?
Yuck!

e, your words apply to wave riding also--
But, in true tension/release formula, the turbulent, difficult sections only tend to sweeten the fruit of the melodic, loping wave phases.

It leaves the surfer totally stoked, thrilled, disturbed, intrigued, and ultimately... inspired.

yeah, felt it squirting out the leg of my suit as i was sitting outside at pedro .... drank about a case of modelo last night prepping for cinco de mayo....should never paddle out with a full bladder
i think i caused a premature high tide

My Favorite post from last week:

Bay Bridge Approach, year 2008:

...and you people are crying about oil prices??

Posted by: Coming to America, SOON!! on April 28, 2006 04:46 PM

Anyone else notice this:

Sonoma County detectives, stumped so far in their 20-month investigation into the mysterious slaying of a young couple on an ocean beach near Jenner, unveiled some items Tuesday collected at the scene -- devil-like faces carved in driftwood, a distinctive beer bottle and a DNA sample they think may have come from the killer.

Investigators are focusing on five different journal entries by authors with distinctive handwriting styles. The observations and reflections were written during the weeks before the killings at a small hut near the young couple's campsite. Investigators would like to know who wrote these entries.

"No one has admitted to being the author of the journal writings," Edmonds said. "Both the style and the content are fairly distinctive for these entries."

Two of the writings involve salutations from someone who calls himself Spiderman. Another journal entry was a rhyme about Santa Claus, leprechauns and the tooth fairy. Another entry, signed by the letter "R" written uniquely, read: "At the Driftwood Inn, alone again, outside of myself and placid as hell ..."

Bob Kelso, We have a friend in common. I have some whereabouts questions regarding Mr. Crooks. email me elias at themainframe dot net. Thanks!

Bought a twinzer from kdalle last night... thanks for the hookup kdalle, I'm absolutely stoked and promise you it'll be in the water bringing me smiles today for sure. Anyone else out there prefer a twinzer? kdalle was also kind enough to show off a bit of his quiver yesterday... pretty awesome collection.

are you this Bob Kelso?:

ps- KIX = YAWNx10

Anyone see the dolphins and lindy this morning? They were quite playful.

ASP Europe - Scottish competition;
Scotland

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 002
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1631Z 03 MAY 2006

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT
ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

... A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT ...

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR

TONGA / NIUE / AMERICAN SAMOA / SAMOA / WALLIS-FUTUNA / FIJI

FOR ALL OTHER PACIFIC AREAS, THIS MESSAGE IS AN ADVISORY ONLY.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 1527Z 03 MAY 2006
COORDINATES - 19.9 SOUTH 174.2 WEST
LOCATION - TONGA ISLANDS
MAGNITUDE - 7.8

EVALUATION

IT IS NOT KNOWN THAT A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. THIS WARNING IS
BASED ONLY ON THE EARTHQUAKE EVALUATION. AN EARTHQUAKE OF THIS
SIZE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE A DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI THAT CAN
STRIKE COASTLINES IN THE REGION NEAR THE EPICENTER WITHIN MINUTES
TO HOURS. AUTHORITIES IN THE REGION SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE
ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS POSSIBILITY. THIS CENTER WILL CONTINUE
TO MONITOR SEA LEVEL GAUGES NEAREST THE REGION AND REPORT IF ANY
TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY IS OBSERVED. THE WARNING WILL NOT EXPAND
TO OTHER AREAS OF THE PACIFIC UNLESS ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED
TO WARRANT SUCH AN EXPANSION.

ESTIMATED INITIAL TSUNAMI WAVE ARRIVAL TIMES. ACTUAL ARRIVAL TIMES
MAY DIFFER AND THE INITIAL WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. THE TIME
BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE TSUNAMI WAVES CAN BE FIVE MINUTES TO ONE HOUR.

LOCATION COORDINATES ARRIVAL TIME
-------------------------------- ------------ ------------
TONGA NUKUALOFA 21.0S 175.2W 1551Z 03 MAY
NIUE NIUE IS. 19.0S 170.0W 1557Z 03 MAY
AMERICAN SAMOA PAGO PAGO 14.3S 170.7W 1620Z 03 MAY
SAMOA APIA 13.8S 171.8W 1622Z 03 MAY
WALLIS-FUTUNA WALLIS IS. 13.2S 176.2W 1643Z 03 MAY
FIJI SUVA 18.5S 178.5E 1704Z 03 MAY

BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.
THE TSUNAMI WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS
FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

Waves: 4-6 feet
Wind: Offshore
Air: Cold
Water: 45 degrees F
Stoke: High

cold v. warm
locals v. trangentials
longboards v. shortboards
congeniality v. lugrubriousness
ahem...

Holy crap Scotland!

Cocaine, Heroin, LSD, Marijuana, PCP, Opium... All To Be Legal In Mexico!

approved for possession by anyone 18 or older -half a gram of coke, a couple of Ecstasy, several doses of LSD, a few marijuana joints, a spoonful of heroin, 5 grams of opium and more than 2 pounds of peyote.

Fox is about to sign the Bill.

National Geographic Society:

63 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 failed to correctly locate Iraq on a map of the Middle East.

Nine in ten couldn't find Afghanistan on a map of Asia.

somebody misses me?

dogs always miss you when you're gone, even if only for a short time. right jenn?

Thats cool about the mexi law. Now, I do not have to worry about the federales.

we never cared about your drugs. only your money. still do.

bk-Good to meet you. Enjoy the Twinzer. Looks like a little swell on the way for Saturday. Find a clean spot and let it rip.

That Spiderman guy always seemed a bit odd

Spiderman - Are you a bodega chap?

Yeah, right on for that drug law. it will help eliminate much of the corruption w/ the police. Ie drug planting on tourist - to extorsion

Plus no more need to hide the weed in the peanut butter

heh. deep in the mustard was always my spot.

small amount of heroin = legal.

STUPID FUCKING LAW.

Dudes, I love to blog all day:

dude is fat.

Is that a pic of the person behind the Sterger posts?

Sterger=Whatever

I think that is what Jenn Sterger looks like after she put on the Freshman 315 at FSU.

You gotta work hard to keep a body like mine... Flaps anyone?

hahahaha everyone calling stergers shit. I have posted an actual pic of myself here before. the real jenn sterger would wet herself.

your not that hot kix. but i'd do ya. meet me at the windmills, i'll show you full rail penetration.

This might be a little off topic but can anyone give me a little heads up on getting a dui. just got one this weekend. 1st time no prior. should I get a lawyer?? any insight would be apreciated.

Jake

dont make me get critical boi

Jake - quit drinking and driving - get someone who knows the laws if not a lawyer - major issues from this point on out. I'v been down that road and it does not get any better once you have been ticketed. You should surf instead of drink alcohol - it sucks but better now than later

Jake, you should talk to a lawyer, especially if you got it in some law-and-order crazed county.

Get a lawyer.

An end to summertime onshores at the beach?

Global Warming Cited in Wind Shift
May 03 4:36 PM US/Eastern
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By MALCOLM RITTER
AP Science Writer

NEW YORK

An important wind circulation pattern over the Pacific Ocean has begun to weaken because of global warming caused by human activity, something that could alter climate and the marine food chain in the region, new research suggests.

It's not clear what climate changes might arise in the area or possibly beyond, but the long-term effect might resemble some aspects of an El Nino event, a study author said.

El Ninos boost rainfall in the southern United States and western South America and bring dry weather or even drought to Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere in the western Pacific.

As for the Pacific food chain near the equator, the slowdown might reduce populations of tiny plants and animals up through the fish that eat them, because of reduced nutrition welling up from the deep, said the author, Gabriel Vecchi.

Vecchi, a visiting scientist at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lab in Princeton, N.J., and colleagues present their results in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

The slowdown was detected in shipboard and land-based data going back to the mid-1800s. It matches an effect predicted by computer climate simulations that trace global warming to a build-up of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, the researchers report. But simulations that consider only natural influences fail to produce the observed slowdown, Vecchi said.

So, it appears the slowdown is largely due to the man-made buildup of greenhouse gases, the researchers concluded. And the result lends more credibility to computer models that trace global warming to greenhouse gases, at least for their ability to forecast what will happen in the tropics, Vecchi said.

The study focused on what scientists call the Walker circulation, a huge wind pattern that covers almost half the circumference of Earth.

The pattern traces a huge loop. Trade winds blow across the Pacific from east to west. The air rises in the western Pacific and then returns eastward at an altitude of a few miles. Then it sinks back to the surface and starts the loop again.

The new study is based on barometric pressure readings, since differences in air pressure drive winds near the equator. Results suggest the average wind speed in the Walker circulation has weakened by about 3.5 percent since the mid-1800s. It has weakened faster since World War II than in the long-term trend since the mid-1800s, Vecchi said.

Computer simulations say the circulation might weaken another 10 percent by 2100, Vecchi said.

Dennis Hartmann, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, said the study makes a strong case that the Walker circulation has slowed. While such an effect had been predicted as a result of global warming, he said, "it's not been demonstrated before as clearly as they've done here."

Anyone notice how people from Mexico always end their question with "no?"

For example,

"Your coming out to our place, no?"

"You drive a nice truck, no?"

"How old are you, 35, no?"

Why is this, I wonder. It's a request for affirmation of the negative. Please affirm that I am wrong.

it's not just Mexicans, lots of people say that.

Surfs Up Here!

British and Australians do the same thing with "yeah"?

You're going to surf tonight, yeah?
you're in for the party, yeah?

My grandma is from Mex and did the "no" thing sometimes. I'm sure it means nothing.

I think the lot's of people you speak of, picked it up from all the Mexicans they know. It isn't as common as you suggest it is, but down south, it is ubiquitous.

I was at a pool party in Mex last week, and it seemed like everyone at the party was doing this.

Like with Candiens, it's "eh"
And Floridians, it's "right"

$15k for a good lawyer.. you need one! where u at?

"global warming caused by human activity"... if only we were that powerful...

Hot Carl, what trip that you posted this article. I *know* Gabe Vecchi and am stunned to see him on the blog, just stunned; we went to the same college (undergrad). Awesome guy, he is totally down with the surfers. He's been out at sea tracking buoy data with NOAA, doing tons of El Nino studies, the whole nine. From purely intellectual standpoint, his studies are no joke. I hope everyone pays attention to his findings.

jake,
here's what i know from a friend of mine
$1000 fine
6 weeks drug and alcohol training $600
bail your car out of the yard $400
insurance rate increase $2000
taxi and muni bus pass etc for the 3 months your license is suspended $200+

if you are lucky and you blew a .08-.09 perhaps you can get it reduced to a wet reckless which means you'll still be able to drive with a measureable amount of alcohol. If you convicted of dui you can't even be at .01 and behind the wheel

there are some technicalities that officers are supposed to follow for example they are supposed to observe you for some number of minutes before administering the breath test if you belch or blow chunks it supposedly throws off the test
might be worth talking to a lawyer $3000

look like you're gonna need some cash
wanna sell any cherry condition bonzer boards ?

Lots of Europeans say no just like the mexicans. For example Italians say "You want to come over my place, no?" to the slutty american girls.

ahhh Mexico.

the "no" thing is just a latin based language thing. More Onions, no?

ooops.. forgot the pic

my heart goes Shaun Tomson and his wife regarding the loss of their son.

I joked harmlessly about shaun here before, wish I hadnt now.

hug your kids tonite.

e, thanks for the pic
las gaviotas es muy bueno
private community , private surf break
you gotta pay to play,......yeah

didn't know that snake.. just did a google images search for "surf mexico" and it came up.

Mr. Ed shreds!!!!

http://members.aol.com/mwn3/page8.html

what up e?

free vw van on the list:
http://www.craigslist.org/eby/zip/157222154.html

onion farm

really sad about Shaun Thompsons kid.

what's the story about shaun thomson's kid? how did he die? it only says that a "prank" killed him.

free onions = viruses. peligro!
almost worth it though

What happened to this kid (Shaun Tomson's son)? It was a prank that he killed himself? Was he playing a joke and accidentally hung himself?

I don't get it. Or is the family saying this b/c they are embarrassed.

Surfing icon's son found hanged
April 26, 2006

Mathew, 14, the son of the legendary Shaun Tomson, 55, South Africa's first world surfing champion, apparently took his own life at his home in Virginia, Durban North, on Monday night.

He had allegedly "hanged himself with his school tie", police spokesman Insp Michael Read said last night. He was found by his mother, Carla, who had gone to check on him. He did not leave a note.

His famous father was today expected to arrive in Durban from his home in California, America.

"The South African community is shell-shocked by the news and that's a mild version of how everyone is feeling," said Anthony Brodowicz, himself a world champ.

"Shaun is a surfing icon. What Gary Player is to golf in South Africa, Shaun Tomson is to surfing and he was once described by an international magazine as the Prince Valiant of Surfing. Father and son were very close and for Shaun to suffer such a great loss is an absolute tragedy. There are no words to describe how we all feel."

Mathew, also an avid surfer, moved back from America and started the new year at Clifton College in January.

"He was a wonderful boy, always smiling and had a quick wit. He was a very popular lad and the whole Clifton community is absolutely devastated by this loss. Everyone is totally shocked," said headmaster Brian Mitchell.

Mitchell had the dreadful job of telling the whole school of about 250 boys at yesterday's assembly that their friend had taken his life. "The boys were moved. This has rocked the school," said Mitchell.

Earlier, a group of 15 close friends of Mathew's had been told what had happened by school counsellor, Rob Wyatt-Minter and psychologist, Sandy van Vuuren.

Wyatt-Minter and Van Vuuren were on hand throughout the day to give help and support to any boy who needed it "and will continue to do so as the weeks go by".

While no one knew the reason for the tragedy, "the grief is in the loss". The staff were also "absolutely affected" by the news, said Mitchell.

A source said last night Mathew's mother was "finished". Another friend described Mathew as "a lovely kid who had grown into a beautiful teenager. He was humble and cool."

Yet another declined to comment, saying it was a private family matter and it had nothing to do with anyone else. No details of funeral arrangements have been released, but Brodowicz predicted it would be the "biggest funeral you will ever see".

I thought today's opening comment said MALASADA. I got really excited to read about them, but it didn't say that. Time to go battle traffic and skate greer.

I don't think the family gets it either.

By that I mean they are more confused than embarassed.

No note, seemingly no indication of depression so who knows.

Hung by school uniform tie. Perhaps that is the origin of Shaun Thompson's "Schoolboy prank gone awry" statement.

I'd love to bend both of those onions over. my god they are hot.

Looks like burnt over chubb to me. Pass.

I can't wait for that intrview with Bri-Bri!!!

Maybe that weird Spider-man guy can hoist Bri-Bri onto his shoulders as they smartly tandem surf into our hearts?

Moussaoui: America, you lost. I won.
America: Who's spending the rest of his life in prison?

once upon a time.... there was a little girl and her name was Tati and she called me Bri Bri. But now her name is Ali and im Brian.

When I started surfing, 1976, I soon realized that there were a few Assholes involed in the sport. As time went on I found that the number was a bit greater than I first observed. Finding this blog I never realized the amount of pure hate that is out there!
To all of you haters out there, when and if the Ladlord comes for you...I will paddle away and prentend I did not see anything. Have a nice day all you Assholes!

Jeez, who's the asshole now?

Moussaoui: America, you lost. I won.

Inmate #2236: No Zacharias, your asshole's virginity lost. Big time.

Friend #1, Straight Up Local, Fancy Jack & The Guys Out Here,

Yeah, it’s weird alright. The other night I was watching the news with my wife and that whole sad story about the couple came on. When they got to the part about the journal entries we looked at each other and she says, “Oh, wow Honey, that’s a really an unfortunate nickname for a guy who likes to surf up north!”

Spidey -
No worries, I imagine we've crossed paths in the water more than once ...the usual spots. There are a lot more frequent regulars than me. These are my local breaks and get most of my attention. Perhaps we'll have a chance to say hi one day.

cheers

I just wondered if it was the same spiderman. Writing online here is a lot like writing in a guestbook at a park.

Didn't mean to suggest that you were the killer.

We'll sort-of, but not really.

Jake: you need both a lawyer and a bicycle. Only the second one can you a find a functional one for $350.

I just got a job here at work where I get paid to look at the marine forecast and buoy data every few hours. All you suckers are doing it for free.

Onion lovers rejoice:
http://video.freevideoblog.com/video/03334E22-0C47-49BB-98A4-C9F82A0EF460.htm