As we walked down the trail to our car, I turned around one last time to look at the beautiful parasail in the sky and that's when I saw it...a sign similar to this except it wasn't on the beach but near a bush by the trail leading to the beach.
Now, don't you think the sign at our beach should have been ALL OVER THE PLACE? Maybe attached to a bright red flag with a shark fin on it or something?No, it was a tiny sign, similar to this but not as clear, posted to one side of the trail on a stake. It read "WARNING SWIMMERS...Recent shark sightings in the area. Swim at your risk". Apparently they were spotted near shore as recently as that very morning. Hmmmm..... My girls were like "MOMMMMMM...you said sharks don't like this area of the Gulf." So what am I, a marine biologist?????
I just told them that they had a choice...die of heat stroke on the beach or cool off in the water. I didn't point out that we had a third choice...stay home in our pool:-) Anyway, next time you go to the beach, look for signs like this...it just might save your pretty fingers and toes!:-)
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Kind of scary, but oh how I love the beach...course I live many hundreds of miles from one! Darn!!
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Yikes!! A couple of years ago we spent three glorious weeks in New Symrna Beach Fla. Had my babies out on rafts splashing and giggling. When we came home to the frozen north I picked up an article in a magazine which had named New Symrna as one of the most dangerous places to swim that year. MOST shark attacks! I never saw a sign the entire time I was there. Next time I'll know to look for a wee sign beside the path:)
ReplyDeleteOh, that's scary...I have gotten to where I don't even like to wade in the ocean anymore, I'm afraid of stepping on a jellyfish!
ReplyDeleteIt does look beautiful though! I can't believe they didn't have more signs around either!
Scary!! Lucky for us, there are rarely any sharks around the beaches we go to.
ReplyDeletethe fish in our lake only poke us, not a real threat. But... last weekend with the snakes, that was scary! Even though they wouldn't eat us for breakfast, they are not something I want to be swimming with just the same.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, your pool sounds good.
OH WOW!! How scary! Your too funny. I do love Sanibel though. I used to go there every January with my sister and mother-in-law for a girls week. Very beautiful. When did you go?
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Yikes! I love Sanibel Island one of our fav vacation spots have been several times and plan to take the kiddo there some day. A Arnold Palmer is half lemonade half ice tea and in lower Mi some call it swamp water!
ReplyDeleteThat is just freaky to think sharks can be that close to shore!! That's the reason my husband will never ever get in the water at the beach. I always say, "what do you think's gonna happen...a shark is gonna swim up to the edge of the water and bite your feet off?". Well, after reading this...apparently they do come that close to shore. Yikes!
ReplyDeleteOh my Goodness that is crazy! When I was at Sanibel Island there was an alligator in the ocean!!! Yes he was there I saw his two eyes staring back at me! We asked the locals about it and they said the only time they get in the ocean is when they are sick. Don't know if that is true or not but you can believe I wasn't getting in that water the rest of the week:)
ReplyDeleteH-O-L-Y CRAPOLA!!!
ReplyDeleteWhen I used to teach swimming lessons we had one day of lessons at the beach. The kids were afraid of sharks and I told them that the sharks didn't come in this close to the shore (and they never did!) Not two seconds later some fisherman caught a baby black tip reef shark. GREEEEEAT.