Alien plays with self-realized surfers before beaching itself

“Everybody was just in awe. You could see people diving down to get a better look because it was such a special encounter..."

You never know what a day will bring. Yesterday, for example, brought fine offshore winds, throughout San Diego County, and a li’l pulse of peaky swell. A day prior, it brought an alien from the ocean deep who briefly visited self-realized surfers out at Swamis, in Encinitas, before beaching itself at Cardiff, in Cardiff.

The Mola Mola, or ocean sunfish, “looks like the invention of a mad scientist,” according to researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Continuing, the august institution explained, “Huge and flat, this silvery-gray fish has a tiny mouth and big eyes that vanish into an even bigger body with a truncated tail. Topping out around 5,000 pounds (2,268 kg), the mola is the world’s heaviest bony fish. (This category doesn’t count sharks and rays; the whale shark is 10 times bigger.)”

No reason given for the exclusion of sharks and rays.

The Mola Mola was, again, first spotted in the lineup at Swamis, a fine right that breaks of the Self-Realization Fellowship, there on the bluff.

The Self-Realization Fellowship, or SRF, was founded in 1920 by Indian guru Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920 with the goal of “scientific techniques for attaining direct personal experience of God.” Yogananda launched the religious organization in Los Angeles but later moved to a hermitage in Encinitas, the very one overlooking Swamis, where he wrote his famous book Autobiography of a Yogi.

SRF had many famous devotees in the 1960s, including The Beatles George Harrison and the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Elvis Presley.

There is no information if the surfers, out at Swamis, attempted to proselytize to the Mola Mola but, whatever the case, it made its way down to Cardiff Reef where surfer, photographer and wildlife biologist Brandon Rowley just so happened to be.

“Everybody was just in awe. You could see people diving down to get a better look because it was such a special encounter,” he told the local CBS affiliate. “It’s that giant dorsal fin sticking out of the water, so it makes sense that people might mistake it for a shark. Definitely unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”

Well, the Mola Mola dabbled there, for a moment, before beaching itself, thus ending its life.

The fierce surf enforcer Joel Tudor often surfs Cardiff Reef though, again, there is no information if he pointed the fish in.

More as the story develops, I suppose.