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Skriven 2014-11-05 09:47:00 av dsi1
     Kommentar till en text av Julie Bove
Ärende: Re: Found a Usenet Kook
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On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 12:01:14 AM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "dsi1" <dsi100@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:f2883bbb-3bac-4045-b9d8-ed0aff4eac95@googlegroups.com...
> > On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 9:03:00 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> >> "dsi1"> wrote in message
> >> news:6e15a7a6-b363-489d-9a9c-2489b970fe70@googlegroups.com...
> >> > On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 6:24:28 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 08:18:24 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > On Monday, November 3, 2014 2:45:26 PM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> >> >> > > On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:01:55 -0500, James Silverton
> >> >> > > <not.jim.silverton@verizon.net> wrote:
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > > Surfing in Hawaii is great but, unlike my son-in-law, I will not
> >> >> > > > surf in
> >> >> > > > California where a wet suit is needed. I guess a wet suit is 
> >> >> > > > needed
> >> >> > > > in
> >> >> > > > Ireland too.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Wet suits are required in Southern California too?  They have warm
> >> >> > > water from the equator, while ours is cold from Alaska.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > My brothers-in-law used to wear wet suits when they dived for 
> >> >> > abalone
> >> >> > near about Half Moon Bay. They probably appreciated their wet suits.
> >> >> > OTOH, it's scary as heck to go diving in waters with great white 
> >> >> > sharks
> >> >> > nearby dressed up like a seal.
> >> >> >
> >> >> Half Moon Bay is in Northern California and the water is very cold.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > The beaches in the bay area was nothing like I expected. They were all
> >> > rocky and the waters were dark and cold. What a shock!
> >>
> >> It's the same here.
> >
> > I have seen those dark waters over there. I remember guys with scuba gear 
> > and wet suits going in at out of the waters. This did not look like any 
> > kind of fun at all. As I recall, this was at an underwater national park. 
> > Amazing!
> 
> Yep.  There is a big scuba park at the beach closest to where I grew up.  I 
> went in that water once and only once.  Just a swimsuit on.  It's too cold 
> even to go wading!
> 
> When I was a kid, the beach was one place you could go to to escape the 
> heat, when we had a hot day.  Because it is so cold down there even in the 
> summer, not too many people were there.  Same for the ferry boat.  As a 
> teen, on a hot day, my friends and I would walk onto the ferry and stay on 
> it until dinner time.  We'd then walk off and go over to the nearby 
> restaurant in Kingston.  It's no longer there.  Burned down in a fire.  We'd 
> hang out in the air conditioned restaurant for as long as we could, then 
> board the ferry again and stay on until the last run.  They used to let 
> people do this provided that they didn't cause trouble.
> 
> Well, all that has changed!   Now the beaches are horribly crowded in the 
> summer.  If you want to go there you might drive around and around for an 
> hour or more until you get a parking spot.  With all the scuba divers, 
> people stay there for hours at a time now.
> 
> And the ferry?  Crowded with commuters.  And everyone has to disembark once 
> it reaches the other side.  I haven't taken one for many years.  I can't 
> remember now if they sell round trip tickets or if you have to pay each way. 
> But you can't walk on and stay on.  They also got rid of the food service. 
> Used to be that you could buy a cup of coffee and keep going back for 
> refills.  Or get some sort of a meal or a donut if you were hungry.  The 
> food was overpriced and not all that good.  But it was an option.  Now there 
> are just a few machines and they aren't always working.
> 
> At least our beaches are free.  I was very shocked to discover that at least 
> some of them were not free on Cape Cod or in CA.  Or at least the parking 
> wasn't.

Everybody wants to live in the town where they grew up - the problem is that
you can't find that in the town where you were raised. My town has grown in the
 last 12 years to the point we have traffic gridlock. The town I was raised in
has busloads of 
Japanese tourists ambling around. The good news for me is that all I have to do
 is move to another island to find a slower, simpler, life.

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