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| Stinson Beach, California. Photo credit: Annie Yearout |
As summer winds down and the
last few weekends that are not
dominated by soccer and more soccer are here, the plan was to squeeze
in a few last beach days.
And when I say Squeeze, I
literally mean squeeeeeeze my children’s bodies into full, neck-to-toe
wet-suits ($10/day rental!) for some last body-surfing & wave catching at
our favorite, glorious, local, hike-to-it-if-you-want-to beach.
Alas, today’s headline sent
to me by on-it reader D.S. put the giant ka-bosh on that 1984-Sunkist-commercial, carefree-Coppertone-vision I’d had…
“Giant great white shark
spotted circling waters of Favorite Beach due to beaching of giant, delicious,
seen-better-days whale. Water closed for many, many days, people.”
Or something like that.
I bring this up due to a
conversation I’d had earlier in August with East Coast family members,
discussing the more recent, “frequent” sightings of these massive
watery-carnivores on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Do we forget that JAWS, the
horror movies that killed the water skiing business in the ocean for an entire
generation, was filmed on Martha’s Vineyard??
I forget frequently. Denial
ain’t just a river….
Anyway, back to the current
situation. Seems these great whites are just doing their usual business. Just
getting “caught” at it more often with our Google Glasses and hunkier lifeguards...
Which doesn’t make me sleep
better at night, so I try to problem solve: with the current neon 80’s trend,
couldn’t we shove our kids into wet-suits that are retina-burning, hideous-glow-stick,
neon colors so they’d be SURE not to get mistaken as a chubby, spastic sea-lion
on a boogie board?
Alas, again, after a quick
WWW search… Yup, those teethy creatures called sharks are as colorblind as an early
contestant on Project Runway.
Hmmm.
So methinks, just as (oh god this is too easy to resist) Heidi
Klum has.... that as good parents, when the local alarm is out, we too can be sure
that anything that looks like a Seal, acts like a Seal, or sings like a Seal,
stays far, far away…. from the ocean, of course….
Namaste & Happy
Swimming! – OM
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