(GGS)
It’s not what you think. This is a surf blog and you might be thinking “Holy cow! Bunny P surfs with her Grandma!”. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Both my grandmothers have past, but now that I think about it, they were both very fiesty and I bet that if they lived here when they were young, they probably would have been surfers. No, the Grandma I’ve been spending the day with is “Grandma” the brilliantly insightful and hilarious author of Grandmas Gone Surfing.
It’s gray, I’m still cold from this morning’s dawn patrol, I’m sleepy and slacky and feel like doing nothing but eating bad food, watching corny Demi Moore movies, and reading Grandma’s blog. The bad food and channel surfing isn’t very satisfying, even though the Tivo is backed up with at least 6 hours of programming that’s been neglected from working ate. Maybe it’s my own body telling me that I should take a mental break. Maybe it’s cos of the weather, but I can’t bring myself to get any work done, nor to get myself fired up to go back out in the water again even though the surf cam is showing some cute conditions. It doesn’t help that I just read this:
El Segundo — On September 3, 2007 Robert Popa was surfing 150 yards North of Lifeguard Station #45 at the Chevron Refinery & Power Plant in El Segundo. It was 3:30 PM and he had been on the water 2.5 hours. The sky was clear with a few clouds and an air temperature of 85 degrees Fahrenheit. The sea was calm with waist high surf and a water temperature of about 68 degrees Fahrenheit. The ocean floor was primarily sand and 8 – 10 feet deep with similar visibility. Popa recalled; “I was approximately 50 yards from shore paddling to get into position for the sets. My marker was the ‘Keep Off Rocks’ sign posted to the right of the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo. I noticed a dark shadow approaching beneath my lower left side. The water was clear and the sky blue, allowing me to see the sandy bottom clearly, which is rare for that area. A dark grey shark, that was about 8 feet in length, swam 2 arms length away from me on my left side along the ocean floor. It continued to swim along the ocean bottom in a relaxed manner towards the shoreline. I sat up on my board and watched it swim for approximately 3 seconds before it disappeared into the backwash. I could not believe my eyes and called out ‘Shark!’ to make the surfers around me aware. I pointed towards its direction then paddled down the beach in the opposite direction.” Please report any shark sighting, encounter, or attack to the Shark Research Committee.
Oh boy.
So here I am at home, half paying attention to emails, and pouring through all of Grandma’s blog posts and comments finding it more satisfying than when I played hookey in college to finish reading Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.
Yeeeeeessss!! Speaking of satisfying, FedEx just delivered the new underwater camera we ordered! There goes work for the rest of the day.
-Bunny
