Last week my buddy Walt popped into my office to talk about the surf. I look forward to these little chats. We discuss the morning’s conditions, the forecast and the water temp. He always has a lot of questions for me and I am happy to respond, even though he has three sons who all live and/or work on the Island and have the answers to all these questions.

Walt also likes to comment on whatever I wrote in Liquid Lines that week – make fun of me for something, back up a point I made with a story,…