Tales from a Ventilation Lunatic

[Scott7022]

By your writing I can feel your passion and love of the surf and surfing. Your true talent. Even though, I suspect you’d like that to be engineering.

One thing that always confuses me about great whites and sharks in general is there “taste bites.” I’ve dove in many oceans and been cheese sandwich distance from Orcas at Robson Byte, before it was protected. Played slap a sea lion or Tag in your neck of the woods in kelp forests and while Sea Lions will bite and pull fins I am certain they know we don’t have bleedy parts in them.

But sharks...I am not a scared Jaws type. But yeah they are always like the drunk guy at a party with a shotgun and a ninja sword. Then they have the bite taste thing. “Can I eat this?” While beautiful and I do understand the personal irony here, they seem a little too focused on survival.

I once grabbed some abalone and had them in my mesh bag. A large sea otter swam up in front of me and stopped. Looked me right in the eye and then looked down at my abalone before getting closer and looking me right in the eye, again. The message was clear, and I gave him one. S/He took it, gently, and sped off.

Shark. What is it? Bite, push, shake. Ah long pig in rubber.


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