Thursday, August 23, 2007
The other morning at the beach, in pictures:
Cat, Daniel and I went to the beach the other morning, before Daniel headed to work. We went to a local spot where there’s never any people, called Sunset Beach.
Daniel found a football on the sand, so they tossed it around. He later joked to Nathaniel that you don’t need to bring anything to the beach, so much junk washes up on shore. You just go there, play with a football, then take it home, leave it in the gutter. Next time you go to the beach, there it is again!
We set up some chairs and nearly got ran over by the beach cleaner.
But he detoured around us at the last minute.
Daniel headed out into the surf to catch some waves.
He mostly missed them, though.
Then we all spotted something scary in the water.
Daniel immediately booked it in to shore.
Cat said, “If I wasn’t afraid to surf, I for sure wouldn’t be afraid of DOLPHINS!”
Daniel said, “You don’t understand. Everytime you go out there, you’re operating under the idea that there could not possibly be anything else in the water with you. You don’t like having that illusion blown!”
Especially when that something in the water with you has a dorsal fin.
Plus, he heard a surfer once got his back broken when a too-friendly dolphin jumped on him.
That picture of a fin above the water…that’s why I’m not a fan of the ocean. I’ll stay on the beach thank you very much!
I forgot to mention, the dolphins were everywhere. All around him. Some up close, some further out. They like to play in the surf.
whenever i’m out surfing and see a dolphin i figure it’s a good luck sign, and assume that i’m going to have a great rest of the day. but it can be a bit freaky when they get too close because they’re so big.
once i was out and had a pod swim right around me (half to one side and half to the other).
That’s funny that they have beach sweeping machines to keep it clean! I’ve never seen those before. Maybe they have more junk on the beaches over where you live? At least some of the junk is useful!
You’re not the only one that’s run into some crazy animals at the beach:
http://www.onelowerlight.com/photos/index.php?showimage=69
The really crazy thing is that a great white shark 14 feet long attacked a seal in front of a beach out here at Chatham just a couple of weeks ago. There have been a couple of other shark sitings on Cape Cod this summer as well. So yeah, you’ve got to look out and know what’s going on!
Once when I was at the Newport Beach Pier a whale was swimming under it.
Daniel’s kind of paranoid about sharks, maybe because he learned to surf in Hawaii and used to live on a point where sharks would breed.
We occasionally get to see the dolphins playing in the waves. They like to ride them, too :)
But there’s nothing creepier than when you spot some unknown thing in the water — even if it’s just kelp — or if that unknown thing rubs up against you. Oy.
Of course, I love it anyway. I’ll have to check out Sunset Beach.