Brutalized by the sea...and stories of headless animals...
I went with friends to Point Dume in Malibu today and while we were there I was reminded how utterly fucked up nature is. First we were climbing the rocks to the "secret" cove and I saw a dead ass bird. As we set up camp, there was this smell like the Beverly Hills Cheese Shop...u know, the best cheese smells just like God's ass. Then we saw another one even further over, where the Mexican fisherman always stand, and it had a wing totally broken and flipped backwards, pretty sad stuff. We returned to the sand and were playing frisbee and playing catch with the ocean (when u throw a tennis ball in crazy far, the surf always brings it right back to your feet) then I finally thought that I have to see what this terrible smell is.
I scoured the immediate area and there we have it, a fucking adolescent seal with it's goddamn head missing. Being that they are hunted regularly by the local shark population, the reason for this seemed pretty obvious. It stank like Mary Poppin's pussy. We covered it with sand and pretended it wasn't there, at least until a couple showed up and nearly laid their blanket on top of it. We notified them of the imminent danger associated with stepping into the decaying, gelled corpse of a once cutesy mammal, and they seemed appreciative.
Sheriff's deputies patrolling the beach came near so I asked them if there was anyone we could call about the bird. One of them said "nope, that's just nature" and the other mentioned how they see it all day long out here. The beach seems like such a man made place at times, but you forget how wild it really is just a few feet out in that water. On the walk back, we did see one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. There was a huge colony of dolphins that were playing with various surfers, and swimmers no more than 30-feet off the shoreline. At one point a wave was breaking and was backlit by the setting sun, causing the water to look like a green sheet of glass. Inside was the perfectly aligned form of three dolphin silhouettes riding the surf towards the shore. How fucking Malibu is that? Even the Dolphins were surfing.
Today was a day of exceptional beauty, and horrific death and dismemberment. The perfect day to cause you to really appreciate life.
I went with friends to Point Dume in Malibu today and while we were there I was reminded how utterly fucked up nature is. First we were climbing the rocks to the "secret" cove and I saw a dead ass bird. As we set up camp, there was this smell like the Beverly Hills Cheese Shop...u know, the best cheese smells just like God's ass. Then we saw another one even further over, where the Mexican fisherman always stand, and it had a wing totally broken and flipped backwards, pretty sad stuff. We returned to the sand and were playing frisbee and playing catch with the ocean (when u throw a tennis ball in crazy far, the surf always brings it right back to your feet) then I finally thought that I have to see what this terrible smell is.
I scoured the immediate area and there we have it, a fucking adolescent seal with it's goddamn head missing. Being that they are hunted regularly by the local shark population, the reason for this seemed pretty obvious. It stank like Mary Poppin's pussy. We covered it with sand and pretended it wasn't there, at least until a couple showed up and nearly laid their blanket on top of it. We notified them of the imminent danger associated with stepping into the decaying, gelled corpse of a once cutesy mammal, and they seemed appreciative.
Sheriff's deputies patrolling the beach came near so I asked them if there was anyone we could call about the bird. One of them said "nope, that's just nature" and the other mentioned how they see it all day long out here. The beach seems like such a man made place at times, but you forget how wild it really is just a few feet out in that water. On the walk back, we did see one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. There was a huge colony of dolphins that were playing with various surfers, and swimmers no more than 30-feet off the shoreline. At one point a wave was breaking and was backlit by the setting sun, causing the water to look like a green sheet of glass. Inside was the perfectly aligned form of three dolphin silhouettes riding the surf towards the shore. How fucking Malibu is that? Even the Dolphins were surfing.
Today was a day of exceptional beauty, and horrific death and dismemberment. The perfect day to cause you to really appreciate life.
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kombucha:
man that sounds so nice bout the dolphin part .. a lil bit icky bout dead nature n dismemberment 
alicat:
nice. goddamn I miss Cali.