Category Archives: sea

Shark Alert

June 24, 2012 – 6:14 pm

Everyone in the world is scared of sharks. One July 4th weekend Richie Boy and I were surfing off Montauk. The temperature was hot and the air was steamy with humidity. Richie Boy noticed that no one was in the water and spotted beachgoers pointing off-shore two hundred meters from the break. A school of […]

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Paradise Now

May 24, 2012 – 9:30 am

In 1990 I took a midnight barge from Surathani to Koh Samui. The rising moon reflected a shining path to the warm horizon and dolphins sang a swimming song in our wake. At dawn the ferry docked on the palm-covered island. I rented a motorcycle and rode through coastal coconut plantations to a coral beach […]

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Buff Naked At Black’s Beach

May 9, 2012 – 7:28 pm

In the summer of 1974 I visited Black’s Beach in San Diego, which was the most popular nude beach in the United States. While nudity remains against the law in the city of San Diego, the Torrey Pines State Park has allowed ‘clothing optional’ for sun-worshippers from the Torrey Pines Gliderport north to the steel […]

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BLACK’S BEACH BLUFF by Peter Nolan Smith

May 9, 2012 – 4:03 pm

The next morning I was awoken by the drifting whiff of brewing coffee. I wiggled out of my sleeping bag to pull the bathrobe around my body. The floor of the porch was chilled my bare feet. The summer days started out cold in Southern California. The flower fields around the bungalow were obscured by […]

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Ocean

March 26, 2012 – 5:40 pm

James Cameron is one of Hollywood’s biggest earners. His two films TITANIC and AVATAR grossed billions and Avatar CS MONITOR. His 2010 income was reported to top $250 million and a man with that much money can appease his every whim. The famed director has answered the call of the deep ocean by descending to […]

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