Monday, May 25, 2015

Sea Hunt

I am enjoying a day at the sea shore of Corona Del Mar. This is a calm, family friendly beach where the children play along the shore and in the tide pools. There are always a few swimmers along the buoy line past the wave breaks. No surf boards are allowed here, and if you are using the 2-3 foot waves for that, you are in for a bad day of hanging ten. It is such a lovely day and I have waded into the ocean up to my thighs and brace for the short waves so I don't fall over.

Pseudo surfer dad struts into the water beside me. He is wearing top of the line surfing gear, fins, rash guard with well known surfing logo on it and dragging along his boogie board.
I'm no surf pro but I felt that the 2 foot wave wasn't a ride, even on a boogie board. You just jump over it.  The man obviously is ready to show his prowess in the water strutting into the breaks with confidence and I am interested to see his performance.

He gets about 20 yards out in hopes of catching "the big one"  and realizes he is still wearing his Oakley sun glasses. Yes, he let us know the brand.  Shouting  to his daughter, who happens to be standing by me, he yells, "Virginia, hold my Oakleys while I surf", then flings the glasses through the air. The glasses never even got within catch distance, landing about 5 feet in front of him and a good 10 yards away from Virginia and me and immediately disappear under the wave and sink. Now surfer dad is mad! Yelling in a tantrum, "Why didn't you catch them! Those were my new Oakleys!  Find them!"

Poor Virginia, all of 10 or 11 years, starts swishing around the ocean and bringing up hands full of sand. Daddy-O is by her side, has abandoned his boogie board  and so red faced furious that his Oakleys are not showing up in Virginia's hands. He spends the next few minutes diving under wave after wave, looking for them and making his daughter and now his son do the same, and I spend it watching him fist punch the water with both hands and cussing a stream of words no one should hear.

He gives it up and sees me musing at him while standing in the little waves,  and walks over to me saying, "Did you see where my Oakley sun glasses went?", to which I gladly reply, and point  toward the horizon,  "Yes!. I saw them sink over there....in the water....where you threw them!"

Idiot..........................

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