Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All the below applies here in the Mendocino area where I live. My son is in ocean rescue with the Mendocino fire dept and they respond several times a year to people swept from the rocks while photographing on large surf days. The safest suggestion is to buy a post card. Richard Mendocino Ca >At 10:48 PM 3/13/02 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: >>Every year, tourists and other ocean neophytes lose their life along our >>California coast. I cannot tell you how many people I have warned, over the >>years. Families with kids, on the open coast, not watching the waves. They >>come in sets and rogue waves are a fact, not fiction, and are more >>prevalent than people think. They are usually responsible for folks being >>washed off the shore, never to be seen again. Sometimes all of the kids, or >>whole families. >> > >AND that Pacific Ocean is mighty cold! Folks used to the much more clement >Atlantic often misjudge just how chilly the water is on the Left Coast and >end up hypothermic. > >I finished High School when my parents lived in Marin County. I got caught >more than once by rogue waves -- but, then, I was a teen-ager and >impervrious ... > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 >Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html