Happy pelican gets disappeared at Rob Machado's home break!
Four months ago, Southern California’s exploding Great White population forced the temporary suspension of Finals Day at Lower Trestles, a popular wave a little out of San Clemente.
Great Whites, once synonymous with Central and Northern California, now make regular appearances at popular surf spots from San Clemente to San Diego.
The Encinitas filmer Bryan Johnson who posted this footage from four days ago (watch his latest work The Lockdown filmed during sixty-five days straight of swell during the heat of the pandemic last year) says he sees Great Whites all the time.
“I saw two yesterday, a ten-footer and what was probably a twelve-footer jump out of the water, oh yeah,” he says. “There were two divers’ buoys right next to ‘em, too. Oh gosh, every day I see ‘em. It’s like Reunion around here.”
Johnson says he sees most of the Whites at Seaside Reef, a surf spot popular with local pro’s including Ryan Birch and Rob Machado, and at Del Mar, a little further south.
“I went fishing on my longboard there and three surrounded me in six to seven feet of water,” he says. “One popped up, six foot, real small ones, really small Whites. Seaside has the biggest ones… I’ve lost count of how many I’ve seen, literally hundreds. I’ve seen them in four feet of water. I was taking a mother of four for a surf lessons and she almost shit her pants, she thought it was a dolphin. I said, no ma’am, that isn’t a dolphin. I had to take her in real quick.”
Johnson ain’t entirely concerned, there hasn’t been a fatal hit since his doctor was killed by a Great White while swimming near the surf spot Tabletops in 2008.
“They’re eating pelicans, they’re not biting us yet,” he says.
Still,
“I just hope they move. They’re out there and they’re the real deal. It’s not like we’re putting inflatable Great Whites out there. Don’t make yourself look like a bird and stay close to your friends.”
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Cool video and enthusiastic article but a lot of grammar mistakes; it makes it difficult to read the article smoothly and enjoy it. Have someone proof read this before posting, or read it out loud so you can hear how it will sound to others reading it.
Hi Ben.
The whites are really cute little fellas until they’re not
Having a bird’s eye view of the situation didn’t help him
Chook slam of the year!
Don’t look like a bird and stay close to friends?
Chaz is fucked.
spat out my herbally infused tea.
When nature calls.
Sometimes it’s explosive sitting on the can.
Sometimes explosive on the pelican.
Everyone should quit surfing, way too dangerous
Still not as dangerous as living 100 percent fatality rate.
Don’t bring logic into this