Like Huntington Beach only.... frothier!
Do you like to surf after a storm or do you play it cautiously and wait to paddle for the prescribed sixty-odd hours? As a child, growing up on the Oregon coast, I loathed the perpetual drizzle, the non-stop wet and grey, but giant rain squalls often calmed the ocean’s angry surface enough for fun surfs. In southern California, though, I learned that rains bring toxic run-off. Very yuck. Very gross with hairy bubbles etc. gliding on the water and so try to avoid post-rain surfs for at least a few hours.
At least we don’t live in India, I suppose, for there a “toxic-filled froth” washes up on the beach after the monsoon and let’s learn about this new environmental horror. Let’s really dig our teeth in to Al-Jazeera, which means The Peninsula, I believe.
A menacing white foam covered one of India’s most famous beaches in Chennai for the fourth straight day on Monday creating a new pollution hazard for the country.
Children have been playing and taking selfies in the clouds of white suds on Marina Beach, even though they give off an acrid smell and fishermen have been told not to go into the sea nearby.
Doctors have warned that skin problems could be caused by the foam, which forms every monsoon season but has been particularly bad this year.
Word has not got through to the hundreds of families who throng India’s longest urban beach, letting children happily skip in the toxin-filled froth.
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board said it is analysing samples from the foam which has spread several kilometres along the beach.
“It is definitely not good for people to go into the foam but they just do not understand the risks,” said Pravakar Mishra, a scientist at the National Centre for Coastal Research in Chennai who has seen the clouds of foam grow in recent years.
Much like surfers, I suppose, not waiting the prescribed sixty-odd hours, post-storm, for a paddle.
Also, can Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch incorporate this phenom into its upcoming Freshwater Classic ’20? I think watching our professionals battle each other, and a toxin-filled froth, would be good viewing. I think numbers would certainly go up.
Siberian Maldives is the way to go if you want picturesque toxic waste.
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Jeez – where’s Greta Thunberg when you need her?
I grew up in Manly Beach pre ocean outfall era, after any sort heavy rain the whole sewerage system would shut down and they let raw sewerage pour our from Nth Head (same thing in Turimetta, Bondi and Malabar I think). We would see some epic stuff, thick walls of brown sludge rolling into Manly Beach. We would often just keep surfing as those occasions would often align with good waves, we wouldn’t tell our parents how bad it was cause we instinctively knew they would stop us from surfing. I got some hectic ear infections though, I still have major issues with my ears as a result of those infections.
It would be comical to secretly add a couple hundred gallons of bubble bath (biodegradable, of course) to Kelly’s Pond, the night before the event.
The Bubblebath Pro has a nice ring to it.
“Welcome everyone to the 2020 Bubblebath Pro live from Lemoore. It’s time to bring out the suds and duds to see who will clean up the field.”
Competitors using large rubber ducks to ride.
Locker rooms constructed from moldering Lego.
Headless Disney Princess as compère.
Matchbox cars clogging up the plough.
Toothpaste spatters on all the giant video screens.
A corner near the bar which is never really swept properly and contains years of dust, hair and those fucking little bits off the bandaids which NEVER EVER manage to flutter down into the bin.
Sponsored by Calgon, preferred bubble bath of murfers everywhere!
It would certainly be FAR more entertaining than “The Freshwater Pro”. Can you imagine? Sally Fitz shooting out of a foamy barrel, surrounded by foam (Brazos are free to substitute Gabby).
His immune system is probably a bit better than most here, he should be fine.