Loading ...And freedom. Yes Florida is so far still a free state. Without getting into the whole climate change debate, my fireplace carbon 5 or 6 times a year is a rounding error. Now when I travel alone in my private jet haha.
aurum
Aurum
Enjoy your fire place. Unless you bought a house that already had them in Calif their banned. Then they pull no burn days and usually when it’s coldest. Now Newsom is banning gas fire places on new homes.
Sitting by the fire
On a cold Florida night. A bottle of French champagne for company and of course Bailey.
Though you can barely see her.
Aurum
Well it teaches you respect for nature and water waits for no one. Be a wave or a river.
I only got cut by coral on my ankle once. I just barley swam past it under water but water moves you around a little bit. I don’t remember it hurting but just a bit and was surprised at how fast it can cut you. I forget how long a distance the detection of that blood can travel but no sharks that I know of popped up. From my understanding great whites don’t usually hunt people but can mistake them for seals especially if there on a surfboard cuz under water they look like a seal. I didn’t have enough memory or info how frequent a shark attack was on a surfer when the long boards were used but when the smaller boards started becoming popular the attacks seemed to pick up or maybe because communication picked up. I can imagine a smaller board under water could look like a seal.
Im guessing a general rule is for each 10 Ft of water you should be able to hold your breath 1 minute and that’s if multi waves don’t hold you under. The 50-70 footers could be do or die but some of those surfers and go beyond 2-3 minutes to 4 minutes and never go alone. Best way to gauge that is look for patterns. Might be 3-4-7 waves then a break of some kind and take the last wave which many tiles seems the best waves. I never snorkeled in real break waves like that before. I’d be afraid the water would rip it off me Lol when the
CMT started showing symptoms luckily wasn’t surfing any more now farther inland but sudden cold would set off sudden and severe muscle cramping that would feel like I was being tasered. I decided to go out a few times on days off on the beach but the though about that stopped me and wasn’t going to wear a life vest and don’t know if that would of even helped. Now the damage is done I guess the pain went with it and have to undo the conditioning that jumping in the water will be instant pain like being electrocuted. At first I though you’ll never get me to hate the water. Well it didn’t, but did get me to fear the consequences.
goldielocks
Many times while snorkeling the tide pushed me into the coral in Hawaii. Ouch.
Yes even on small waves I have been tumbled under water so much that I didn’t know up from down and running out of breath.
Sometimes would see sharks but apparently I don’t look like a meal. Many great whites are tracked along our coast and surprisingly come in quite a bit close to shore.
To be younger and do those things again. Being zoned in on a wave is like zen. Everything else is shut out just the magic of the moment is real.
aurum
btw we should get a bounce in the pms soon but then most likely another fairly large downturn before the rocket fires imo.
Aurum
As long as you like to surf and hitch a ride with the power of nature that’s all that counts. Even 5 ft can be dangerous depending on why. Florida as bull sharks, Hawaii Tiger and coral, Calif especially in North California in winter has hypothermia and where the big waves come and occasional sharks like great white with warmings here and there about it that get ignored but they are aware but the waves outweigh the risks that may travel south. One Hawaiian surfer warned me years back of places on the north shore a bit out that there was coral just about 3 feet below you.
A funny story about a friend who got caught up with that coral while in RR Army VN He made everything that’s dangerous sound funny. Waves knocked him around and pushing him down into the coral and he used his feet to stop him from being slammed into it. Over and over again and can’t remember all he said.He finally gets out and goes to his hotel and changes but his feet are so cut up so he wrapped shirts around them. Then tried to go to a restaurant to get something to eat and they kicked him out and thought he was a bum and wouldn’t give him a break or didn’t believe him. He couldn’t enter because he had no shoes. That was enough for me to stay away from it.
FWIW
Investors recap with Mike Pento
goldielocks
We were sometimes on the north shore of Oahu. I remember watching the surfers on that fearsome coast. All I could manage anywhere (no more though) were the 5 foot waves on our north Forida beach.
aurum
Happy New Year y’all.
California new year
Red sky’s at night, sailors delight. Not exactly. High waves across the coast. Surfers out yesterday, think they’ll be closed in southern cal beaches today in southern California. People coming here to see them but don’t know what they call rogue or sneak waves that pop up past the beach and wash people down the streets. No news about it in north cal but waves here 12-15 feet aren’t big but the biggest wave areas usually don’t have streets or homes near by, but cliffs. They get 50-70ft here.
New Year? – Bah! Humbug!
As for ‘Happy’… I’ll believe it when I see it!
