Monday, January 28, 2008
Surfin' Safari
Yesterday I returned to scene of the crime (Trigg) for a surf with some mates. Pretty good surf; small to middling with a few good waves. Highlight was watching some dude going nicely across a wave, and then suddenly pulling up because out of nowhere (I kid you not) came a baby lying on a surfboard, straight out of the wave.
Now, I can only assume the kid was a very young-looking toddler, and his father/mother/other had pushed him into the wave from a now obscured spot. I will also assume his baby bonnet was a sunhat of some description, though it looked a hell of a lot like a baby bonnet.
Anyway, the baby surfed into shore where he was greeted by someone who might have been his mother/aunty/a complete stranger.
Alternatively, he might have been washed all the way from Jeffries Bay in South Africa in a strong rip, and his distraught parents are, to this day, searching the beach for their baby.
This is the version I choose to believe.
Now, I can only assume the kid was a very young-looking toddler, and his father/mother/other had pushed him into the wave from a now obscured spot. I will also assume his baby bonnet was a sunhat of some description, though it looked a hell of a lot like a baby bonnet.
Anyway, the baby surfed into shore where he was greeted by someone who might have been his mother/aunty/a complete stranger.
Alternatively, he might have been washed all the way from Jeffries Bay in South Africa in a strong rip, and his distraught parents are, to this day, searching the beach for their baby.
This is the version I choose to believe.
