Kamp-R-Rick, checking out the great lefts at Trail 6 this morning!
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Dehydrated Surfers Back in Hospital
San Clemente, CA (UPI) Two surfers found adrift Monday in a sailboat were rehospitalized today due to dehydration from their ordeal at sea. Dr. Ralph of San Clemente General Hospital said that the men were near death, stressing that fluid balances must be kept to what is the normal minimum for each individual person. "We gave them several booster injections and they have both been on a steady flow of intravenous fluid. We will continue with injections and IVs until we can get their bodies back to their normal fluid balance" said Dr. Ralph.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Katrina
As the reconstruction goes on in the south, the government is now separating the classes and their housing!
Sunday, July 16, 2006
U.S. Hazards Assessment
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Valid Monday, July 17, 2006 - Friday, July 28, 2006
Summary of Forecasts & Hazards
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| LONG-RANGE | 3-5 DAYS | 6-10 DAYS | 11-14 DAYS |
Saturday, July 15, 2006
NEW OLYMPIC SPORT
Thanks to The generous donations by Drralph, The Olympic Committee has added Pole Dancing to the next Olympic Games.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Slippery When Wet
I am in the process of authoring a dictionary of phrases, for our immigrant friends who have a hard time understanding the English language.
There will be a phrase followed by a photo,(see example above).
After all a picture is worth a thousand words.
show your frizbies
The San Onofre "NUDE FRIZBIE TEAM" back from their latest match against the Team from Trail#6.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Generic Dough Boy
Looks like our friends from south of the border, are trying to muscle in on the action.
SanO Feline Feral Shark
I’ve learned that it started about 1945, when a guy named Eddie McBride used to live in a paneled truck at SanO. He lived there for many years after that, but it was about the end of WWII that he started feeding cats at SanO. He fed several generations of them, resulting in quite a colony of feral cats. The cats were quite happy to be raised mostly on fish scraps from the locals who would fillet sharks and other fish on the beach. I am told that Eddie even used to capture the cats from time to time and take them up to a vet in San Clemente for shots and any health problems.After the nuclear plant was built, the cats took to hanging around it because of the warmth it gave off. Over time, and through generations of exposure to radiation, some shark DNA in their diet merged with the feral cat DNA to result in a species unique to San Onofre.
I had heard the story of the feline feral sharks of San Onofre, mostly from divers spear fishing at SanO. But divers are fishermen, and you know about fishermen’s tales.
I decided to do a little fishing myself on Wednesday. I paddled out on my longboard with my rod and reel and a little baggy of bait. I kept hearing a purring sound. Well, unlike those fishermen who see things but never take a picture, I had my camera with me.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Daily Life
I saw this picture and thought that it showed something different. A newer model Mercedes Benz, modern freeway and bridge, a hillside (what you can see of it) with green foliage growing. So many of the middle east war pictures we see are so different from our life in America. Different looking cars, different looking people, often sandy mostly barren desert areas and very different houses. This just struck me as more like the suburban America I live in. Except for the political signs, it looks just like the roads where I drive. Okay, except for the fact that it has just been bombed too.Some wealthy guy going about his daily business in his Mercedes in Lebanon, when he has to turn around and drive the wrong way on the freeway because the bridge has just been destroyed by Israeli warplanes in reprisal for the capture of 2 soldiers and the killings of 8 others.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Its all my fault
Please excuse me. I alone am at fault for all the problems upon this earth. I except full responsibility for my actions. Now can we get on with San-O daze?
SanO Rat Population Getting Big Boost
SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (AP) It all started four years ago, when he caught a baby rat at San Onofre to feed his pet Sri Lankan python. But when he saw the furry little critter squeaking for its life, the lifelong animal lover said he didn't have the heart to let it become just another snake snack.
"I couldn't stand it," he told the San Clemente Dispatch. "I took the rat out of the cage and got to know it." After that, "Big T," as he is known to the locals, was hooked on the rodents, which he described as gentle, lovable and an endless source of entertainment. He caught four more at the beach the next week.
Last week, animal control officers discovered more than 2,500 rats in Big T's small, one-bedroom home after a neighbor complained about the foul smell. He was cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Big T said a recent bout of flu and bronchitis kept him from maintaining control of the fast-breeding population. "I did not set out to do this," he told the paper. "It was not all my fault," he added. "It was this force of nature that overwhelmed me."
His house, in a quiet middle-class neighborhood, reeks of urine, the San Clemente Dispatch said. The floor is covered with the chaff of feed mixed with rat droppings, and everything is gnawed on, including the sheetrock walls.
When animal control officers arrived, they found rat cages stacked ten deep. The rats appeared well fed and cared for, and very active.
Big T admitted that he felt some relief when the rodents were confiscated, noting the "crushing burden" of caring for them. He said he was buying up to 5000 pounds of rat food a week.
Most of the rats are doing very well said Nancee Tavares, manager of San Clemente Animal Services. Tavares said that the rats would be released at San Onofre Beach on Friday because the original parents came from an area known as "Old Mans" at that beach, and returning them to their original environment would be the ecologically sound thing to do.
While there are some upset that there will be thousand of rats released upon the beach Friday, others are planning a barbecue for Friday evening. "We barbecue every Friday," said Jack Daniels, pictured here, "and it's about time someone else restocked the area."
"I couldn't stand it," he told the San Clemente Dispatch. "I took the rat out of the cage and got to know it." After that, "Big T," as he is known to the locals, was hooked on the rodents, which he described as gentle, lovable and an endless source of entertainment. He caught four more at the beach the next week.
Last week, animal control officers discovered more than 2,500 rats in Big T's small, one-bedroom home after a neighbor complained about the foul smell. He was cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Big T said a recent bout of flu and bronchitis kept him from maintaining control of the fast-breeding population. "I did not set out to do this," he told the paper. "It was not all my fault," he added. "It was this force of nature that overwhelmed me."
His house, in a quiet middle-class neighborhood, reeks of urine, the San Clemente Dispatch said. The floor is covered with the chaff of feed mixed with rat droppings, and everything is gnawed on, including the sheetrock walls.
When animal control officers arrived, they found rat cages stacked ten deep. The rats appeared well fed and cared for, and very active.
Big T admitted that he felt some relief when the rodents were confiscated, noting the "crushing burden" of caring for them. He said he was buying up to 5000 pounds of rat food a week.
Most of the rats are doing very well said Nancee Tavares, manager of San Clemente Animal Services. Tavares said that the rats would be released at San Onofre Beach on Friday because the original parents came from an area known as "Old Mans" at that beach, and returning them to their original environment would be the ecologically sound thing to do.
While there are some upset that there will be thousand of rats released upon the beach Friday, others are planning a barbecue for Friday evening. "We barbecue every Friday," said Jack Daniels, pictured here, "and it's about time someone else restocked the area."
Monday, July 10, 2006
Sorry Man, I didn't see you
It's hard to hide your personality out in the water. The same guy that cuts you off on the freeway, or ignores your blinker to merge left or right will be hopping in the lineup, or looking like he is going left and then go right at the last second. All the rules governing surfing are unwritten, and they are enforced only by the participants. Surfing is an aggressive sport, being courteous used to pay off, times have changed.
Long ago when the surf would go flat for days on end, we needed a supplement. Remember the old steel skates? The ones that came with a key and clamped to your tennis shoes. Well somebody took them apart and nailed them to a two by four, thus the skate board. All you needed was a street in the neighborhood with some down hill grade. They did not turn at all, so you would just bonzi, It was fun. The skate board has really evolved.
Surfing use to be all about style. You would drop in, make a huge bottom turn, step up and go into a roll-a-coaster, then step back and do a drop knee cut back, whip it around and stall, let the wave set up in front of you then run to the nose and stand there perched like a statue.
Your feet where never more than shoulder width apart or a little more, arms at your sides, straight or slightly bent, fingers straight, together and wrist slightly arched. When you did a maneuver, bottom turn, or a cut back you would raise your arms to chest high. Still straight or slightly bent, hands, fingers, wrist as mentioned before. When you ran to the nose, you might raise your arms over your head, hands side by side, fingers pointing straight up and arch your back. Now I could insert a lot of great names here but I won't, I will leave that to your imagination.
In the old days, surfers were always regarded as misfits or rebels, all they wanted to do is surf. If you had a car, maybe a 49 Dodge, it was broke down and did not run. It would be parked in some field, luckily near the beach and you lived in it. If you where really lucky and had a job, like rough plaining blanks at night for shapers, like somebody I use to know. You had money for food.
Today, surfing has become big business. There are big name sponsors involved and a hole lot of money. Although long boards are as popular as ever, on the circuit short boards are the big draw.
As boards got shorter, styles changed along with the looks of young surfers of today. Nothing wrong with change as long as you are still courteous in the water, and don't say things like sorry man I didn't see you.
A lot of the not so old, older guys with long board backgrounds, who also short board have great style. The young short boarder of today has fused skate boarding into their style, doing though maneuvers that score really big points. It is what surfing has evolved into.
Personally, to this day. Gerry Lopez rips.
Long ago when the surf would go flat for days on end, we needed a supplement. Remember the old steel skates? The ones that came with a key and clamped to your tennis shoes. Well somebody took them apart and nailed them to a two by four, thus the skate board. All you needed was a street in the neighborhood with some down hill grade. They did not turn at all, so you would just bonzi, It was fun. The skate board has really evolved.
Surfing use to be all about style. You would drop in, make a huge bottom turn, step up and go into a roll-a-coaster, then step back and do a drop knee cut back, whip it around and stall, let the wave set up in front of you then run to the nose and stand there perched like a statue.
Your feet where never more than shoulder width apart or a little more, arms at your sides, straight or slightly bent, fingers straight, together and wrist slightly arched. When you did a maneuver, bottom turn, or a cut back you would raise your arms to chest high. Still straight or slightly bent, hands, fingers, wrist as mentioned before. When you ran to the nose, you might raise your arms over your head, hands side by side, fingers pointing straight up and arch your back. Now I could insert a lot of great names here but I won't, I will leave that to your imagination.
In the old days, surfers were always regarded as misfits or rebels, all they wanted to do is surf. If you had a car, maybe a 49 Dodge, it was broke down and did not run. It would be parked in some field, luckily near the beach and you lived in it. If you where really lucky and had a job, like rough plaining blanks at night for shapers, like somebody I use to know. You had money for food.
Today, surfing has become big business. There are big name sponsors involved and a hole lot of money. Although long boards are as popular as ever, on the circuit short boards are the big draw.
As boards got shorter, styles changed along with the looks of young surfers of today. Nothing wrong with change as long as you are still courteous in the water, and don't say things like sorry man I didn't see you.
A lot of the not so old, older guys with long board backgrounds, who also short board have great style. The young short boarder of today has fused skate boarding into their style, doing though maneuvers that score really big points. It is what surfing has evolved into.
Personally, to this day. Gerry Lopez rips.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Saturday, July 08, 2006
The Paddle-Out
It was an absolutely beautiful day for Terry's paddle-out! There was a massive turn out of family and friends to say goodbye to Terry. Many great names in surfing were there to paddle out. From the past people like Paul Strauch, President of the Hawaiian surf Club and San Onofre Local, to the present with people like three time World LongBoard Champion Collin McPhilips paddled out to say goodbye to a friend. Sean Smith of SIMA (surf industries maufacturers assc. whom Terry thought the world of) came to pay his respects. And I would also like to thank Dick and Una Baker for a wonderful post paddle-out reception at their beautiful home. And last but only because we always want to save the best for last a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to The Points own Sheriff Bob for putting this all together and to let him know that Terry would have been VERY PLEASED!
And a BIG THANK YOU for all that came to say goodbye....
And a BIG THANK YOU for all that came to say goodbye....
Friday, July 07, 2006
PADDLE-OUT
Remember there is a paddle-out for our friend Terry McCann tomorrow at Doheny at 3pm, come pay your respects to a man who loved the sport of surfing and did so much for the surf industry.
Lets not forget that he was the USA'S 1960 Olympic Gold Medal Wrestler in the Rome Olympic's!
Lets not forget that he was the USA'S 1960 Olympic Gold Medal Wrestler in the Rome Olympic's!
Thursday, July 06, 2006
You say you don't speak english?
One of the best reasons to learn to SPEAK and READ english if you come at America!
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Happy 4th of July
For those less perverted than my friends, lets all salute our FLAG! (just kidding guys)
"HAPPY 4th of JULY"
NO LEASHES?
No leash is a danger, it gets so crowded now that a loose board can hit several people on its way to the beach. Don't just think of yourself in the water and look around and you will see that even the best surfers at San Onofre wears leashes! YOU ARE responsible for any damage to surfboards or any bodily injury that is caused by your loose board! If you think "I rip, I don't need a leash" you probably need to use one, because attitude doesn't mean your good. Be considerate and don't be a HOPPER or a SNAKE and you and everyone else will have more fun. If you forget your leash, stop and ask the Mayor if can can borrow one, he has a supply of them that he finds left on the beach! Have fun and be safe!
Monday, July 03, 2006
You have probably noticed the shuttle buses around town, the ones from Talega.
They offer passage,for Talegalites, to downtown areas such as,Del Mar shopping area, The Pier Bowl and North Beach.
beginning next month, plans are to add several more busses. They will run every hour on the hour, to offer Talegalite kids passage to the ever popular surfing beach, San Onofre.
Park officials are said to be excited about the added revenue.
DogPatch Please!
Sorry folks, but this type of surfing is restricted to DogPatch with the ButtBoards and kayaks. Parks rules state that any water craft that uses a paddle or an oar at San Onofre (for safety reasons) is considered a paddle assisted craft and must remain to the far south of San Onofre.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
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