Turn On It, Tune Out, Drop In

Just posted this pic last month...
But it applies.

Surfed on Tuesday and Wednesday at PC...
Following on the heels of the Cole Ortega incident...
Lots of talk about what to be done...
Who's to blame...
And talk of buoys, lifeguards & regulations...
I feel bad for the boy...
But you can't regulate everyone's safety...
It's an inherently risky endeavor...
Although getting hit by a boat...
Isn't a risk you generally consider.

Tuesday's surf was pretty dismal...
Quick closed out shorebreaks...
Wednesday, paddled out with HD...
He wanted to go drink coffee...
But I used the Jedi Mind Trick...
To persuade him to surf...
And keep his surf streak alive...
Once we got out, he said...
"Bigger than it looked"...
I answered...
"And crappier than it looked too"...
We caught a few and hung it up...
He went to drink his coffee...
And I went and surfed the closed out shorebreak again.

Later that day, I paddled across the above river...
In misbegotten hope of surf...
I made it about halfway through the flats...
Before the force of the wind...
Drove me backwards...
I stashed the board...
And struggled forward to the beach...
The nuking north wind...
Needles to say, had destroyed the surf...
And the blowing sand storm...
Sent me packing quickly.

Three Rocks, located near the mouth Salmon River…
Has a long history of native inhabitation and associated legends…
The Neschensney tribe told of a ship wrecked in the river long ago…
Tales of strange men, buried treasure and murder...
Bits of wreckage found in a shell mound…
Along with non-native 2 skeletons…
One of them 8-feet tall...
According to the legend the ship…
Described as "a monstrous canoe with wings"…
Entered the mouth of the Salmon River and wrecked…
The legend tells of three men, one a giant black…
Left behind to guard valuables from the wreck…
The others left on foot never heard from again...
The three lived among the Neschensney…
The African worshipped as a god…
But the native later killed all three men…
Their remains within the shell mound…
Reportedly show evidence of violent deaths…
One of the leg bones shattered…
A two inch bone spearhead found…
Lodged at the base of one skull…
A large stone embedded in the skull of another…
Other artifacts of the shell midden included…
A broken iron receptacle…
A whale bone war club…
And a crude stone pestle.
Two different galleons disappeared without a trace...
The San Antonio in 1603 and the San Francisco Xavier in 1707…
These galleons carried gold ingots and cotton cloth…
And the already famed cakes of white and yellow wax…
The San Francisco Xavier is thought to be the legendary "winged canoe"…
That wrecked at the base of Neakahnie cliffs…
Do the bones of the lost San Antonio lie…
Beneath the shifting sands of the Salmon River?