Snakes...why'd it have to be snakes??

I remember seeing JAWS and thinking that I might worry a little more when in the Ocean. That fear went away with the first good swell I experienced in HB. Recently I was witness to a waterspout/tornado right on the beach. Very cool in a scary way!

Now I truly have reason to worry. Seems that there is more washing out to sea than just trash and trees and tuberculosis. Seems that poisonous snakes are turning up on our beaches. They are obviously cold and stunned, so they hide in the piles of debris on the beach. The most dangerous are rattlers. Yeah...Rattlers hanging out on the beach. The problem is worse further south toward Laguna, but I am going to step carefully for the next few days!!

The Ocean is chocolate brown soup from all the runoff, but the sandbars are huge. In a couple of days and hopefully until summer, we could see some of the best formed surf in decades!!! A-framed peaks throwing top to bottom, inside and outside. There are seven new sandbars between the Pier and Goldenwest Street. Shaweeeet!

Aloha from the Island of Huntington Beach.