{"id":822,"date":"2010-08-03T16:21:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T23:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=822"},"modified":"2010-09-22T11:52:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T18:52:25","slug":"wild-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2010\/08\/wild-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Surf:<\/strong> Knee-Waist High. Junky.<\/p>\n

Pretty low expectations once again exceeded. Spent about 4 hours paddling around catching waves here and there, running in to friends. In the last hour or so of the session I was looking out to sea and saw a pretty big something jump pretty far away from us. Something big with a white belly and some serious heft. <\/p>\n

Since it’s shark week on discovery, I’m not going to speculate. The ocean’s plenty wild and this season’s been rather active for animals of all sort. It spooked a few people, the rest of us kept on surfing. Seeing a quick glance of something very far away isn’t enough to know what is was. Dolphin, whale, big fish. Whatever it was it was far off and doing it’s ocean wildlife thing.<\/p>\n

To put it in perspective I’ve surfed over a hundred times, once seen something like this and once been in the water when someone else had experienced something like this. It’s their ocean, the fishes, the mammals, the critters, and the plants. I’m doing my best to be considerate of them and I certainly hope they return the favor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surf: Knee-Waist High. Junky. Pretty low expectations once again exceeded. Spent about 4 hours paddling around catching waves here and there, running in to friends. In the last hour or so of the session I was looking out to sea and saw a pretty big something jump pretty far away from us. Something big with … <\/p>\n

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