Waves!

It wasn't much, but in the grand scheme of things, I hit the jackpot early this morning. I was the first crazy one out, at the crack of dawn, 6:30am. I could see little lines, the tide was full and dropping, so I knew it would start showing more and more. As I approached the seawall, carrying my precious fish, I sighed.

Look at all that trash!

All along the wall lingered assorted crap from the day and evening before, empty beer bottles, plastic containers, cans, what the heck, people!? That was when I saw a sweet man with a bag, picking it all up. I smiled, and told him how I appreciated it. He smiled back, as I apologized for not helping him, but he said no, we each do our part. I ranted for a bit: I'M A VEGETARIAN! I DRIVE A PRIUS!

He laughed, and then told me how he had always remembered something John Glenn, the astronaut, had said when he had seen our planet form space, back in the 60's. John GLenn had returned to outer space in this new century. He said that before, the earth had looked clear and blue, but on this last viewing he had seen the brown, hazy difference.

"We are killing our planet," this man said, and I sighed and agreed. I said that everyday we could at least do something, like he was doing.

We are a scourge upon the planet, a cancer (stealing that line from THE MATRIX).

As I trundled on down the steps, and began waxing up, I looked around the rocks and saw more cans, more crap. How can people actually do this? Just then I saw the man still picking up trash on the seawall. He looked down at me and smiled coyly. "Maybe if I keep working, there might be breakfast in it for me?" That was the closest thing I have had to a date invitation from a man in a long time. But, there were waves to ride. Sorry, dude, but my love is the ocean! I smiled back, pointing to all the trash in between the rocks, "There's a lot more down here!" I suppose I should have just dropped my board and helped, but I have done my share of beach clean-ups, and there will be many more, but right now there was that little window of offshore winds that I had to slip into.

My first wave was good, I was amazed at just how much fun it was! The second one was probably my best one of the day, the fish just flew up and down and all around. Then a guy paddled out near me, then two on the north side of the pier, and then, JACKPOT! Karen paddled out. We had so much fun, sharing waves, watching the dolphins! We even saw them throw a fish into the air, playing with it, or maybe sharing breakfast. That's you and me, I said, and we laughed and high-fived, and surfed until the wind started coming around out of the north.

A good day, we are surfing again!