For me, this week has been a post long weekend, waves that are always off somehow, no real fish yet, air temperature is still annoyingly chilly kind of week. Not a bad week by most standards, but just kind of blah, like the doldrums. The doldrums, by the way, are an area of the oceans found beneath the Intertropical Convergence Zone where the trade winds are light. In the past era, before smart phones began making people dumber by doing brain functions customarily done by humans, sailors feared riding the trade winds too far and getting stuck in the windless doldrums. Placidity is the antithesis of sailing.
Biologically, after a very warm fall and winter and a record warm March, the moderation of temperature in April has confused me as to what season we are now sailing into. Unfortunately, it seems my nightmare of annoyingly chilly not too hot not too cold weather will continue for at least another week. I am very sick of lukewarm 50F air temperatures- the immediate beach mostly missed out on the March heat wave with fog and an ocean wind.
To add to the doldrums feeling this article will remain colorless with only the black and white of text. I did see something noteworthy today, though, amidst the annoying dumpy one thing always wrong swell that has been out there since the deluge on Sunday . . . the bunker are here . . .
