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Bitrex? Will have to look that up.
You really are at their mercy - and they ain't got much. Your luck is more critical. Also, sitting with your legs dangling like bait makes being in a kayak feel like being on a battleship. (Did y'all hear about the Aussie kayaker who got trapped on an island for DAYS because this 20 foot croc kept coming after him? That was a crazy story! Don't know if this was it. [Link] )
I could write up so many . . . in all the years I lived in SoCal later 70s -mid 80s, I only saw one shark - just a little dogfish. But they came back with a vengeance.
A Florida surfer's truism. (through overstatement) If you got out of the water every time you saw a shark, you'd never have learned to surf.
I saw more sharks in one day than I've seen in my entire life. THAT was crazy.
RC
One year we were split into two groups. Our group of about 20 max all were PADI certified. We were taken out to sea at night off Kona, told we were going to shark infested waters. Very deep. In our briefing the dive master told us the different species of sharks and what their ratings were. Their ratings were how aggressive they were like attack without provocation. (More fear inducing). We were dressed in wet suits and buoyancy jackets but they deflated our buoyancy jackets and withheld our flippers. One by one we were taken down and attached to the anchor line or bow line and left there alone. Not told for how long just observe sharks and recognise the species.
Some time later we were rescued and returned to the boat.
We all just thought it a bit of a lark. Never found out if their were any sharks in the area.
Good thing we weren’t told there was a deadly virus coming to attack us we might have been shaking in our boots.
RC
However, it was fun as hell. (Sebastian was way scarier.)
RC
R. C. It is interesting that as kids we often chose to do scary things. Like we knew we had to challenge our fears; otherwise they run our life. Obviously today people have not done enough of that.
1) It's about 1/3 as long as it was then, which gave a lot more light to the incoming waves, and,
2) There were no SoCal shark attacks back then.
I do agree with you. Lives devoid of danger
aspiredespire* to be devoid of ups and downs, and ultimately, without aspiration, end up at some neutered version of level. - The hollow men go out not with a bang but a whimper.RC
*Should be a word.
rc
I'd be a disciple, but who would I follow?
RC.
RC
*Is that from the bible? Some rock opera? Ahh. Joan Osbourne. . . [Link] (Another first ever seen rock MTV video for me as are most.)
rc
By no means do I think we have to go through JC to God; JC is just a teacher and can show us the way.
Allah ackbar ... God is great God is good.
Thanks for the song
I always said this about these lines:
"What would you ask if you had just one question?"
And instantly, one would say, "God, why?"
And God would say "Because."
And you'd both have a good laugh.
RC
Follow no one. When the student/disciple is ready the teacher will appear.
Yeshua said,
Seek and do not stop seeking until you find.
When you find, you will be troubled.
When you are troubled,
you will marvel and rule over all. [Link]
My friend you have support. You are that which you seek. Everything you wish to know is within not without. That being said if you soften your eyes and look you will see pointers without that shall point the way. Believe nothing test it for yourself for only in doing can you “know”.
Ask and it shall be given and I speak not of material but of spiritual matters.
Your higher her self is that to which you commit while your lower self is brought to submission. In alchemy imagery you will recognize it as the lion that you tame to become your friend.
Everything in life is a metaphor.
Pain suffering? I have heard it said “If one wishes not to suffer have no desire.
No matter what Rowan know that death is not final.
You just may be God (a small fractal of itself) experiencing itself.
A good teacher will tell you to believe nothing they tell you. Nor will they ask for anything in return.
Be well my Brother. You are not your body.
I did not realise how much I needed a big hug right now.
I missed out on music and movies for a lot of years. Life was just working full time and caring for five kids and a husband (who did not help much). I kept choosing husbands that did not help much and then I resented them. Nothing kills love like resentment. My bad.
Do that ten times per day and all this world's problems will melt away.
RC
I've got a lot of scary stories but that was the worst.
R.C.
I had originally thought it was a bull shark (our meanest) but then I learned that they rarely get over 10 feet and I never knew that we even had great whites. In recent years it was that I discovered that it couldn't have been a bull as her dorsal was 10 feet ahead of her tail fin. I then looked up shark fins to see what it might have been (still have the video memory of it) and it was thinner in the back, an little rough shredded (aside from the mating scars) and when I found out, I kinda got more scared. It was DEFINITELY a great white. She was also fatter (maybe even pregnant) than other sharks. I've seen giant hammerheads (VERY territorial and they chase you right out of the water) but she was WAY too big around. (Of course, have stories of bulls, spinners, white and black tips, hammerheads, et al. and it's kind of like bird watching - you learn.
As I was sitting on my board with my legs dangling, her left pectoral fin should have hit my right calf/ankle area. She was probably trying to do the pre-bite 'rub up against them and see if it bleeds' tactic.
The reason it didn't was because even as her dorsal was passing on my right, her left pectoral fin must have passed below my foot!!!! Huge! I just did an involuntary shake about that one. I've got some great ones from hammerheads too, but they're mostly bluff charges - not this lady. She was a 'Killer Queen'.
RC
How is kitty? 🐈
Me, on the other hand, went out and shot pool on Friday, and on Sunday I woke up with a nasty flu - no cough or such - just GI. I haven't been sick like that in decades.
I knew it had to be C-1984 so I ran down and got a triple jab of J&J, Moderna & Pfizer, and now I'm typing from my new terminal in heaven.
Well, my immune system took care of it and I'm just now getting to that point after you've been sick, when you feel back to normal and that feels good. I love you my lady.
RC
Artex Yep. Bulls are our worst sharks. They're ornery. The was a guy who would swim off his back dock in the inner bay areas of St. Pete every morning. One day he jumped in and whoosh came a large bull and took his leg off. He died.
Bulls don't fight fair is what it feels like,
It is true what I say about how you can smell when sharks are in the water. I don't know if it's from the fish guts floating around or the fact that they have fishy sweat but it's true.
RC
in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast Qld they get into the canals and there have been attacks and deaths.
They're the cockroaches of sharks.
I've gotta go but I've got one scary and heroic bullshark story where . . . well, maybe sometime. It was in the Inlet at New Smyrna Beach.
STAB. (Sorry folks.)
RC