Look, I don't intend to get political, but as we now know using certain resins in the US is an act of political defiance. So, it begs the question, what is political? Is it specifying a type of resin for laminating, or saying, hey this wave is threatened by a highway or dredging program? Which is the bigger offender?
Anyway, we are losing our waves. W/O waves what good are boards? W/O waves where is the local surf economy? If we have to dredge deeper channels, so the Chinese freighters can import Chinese surfboards, wtf? If we have to kill surf breaks so we can get to work faster, WTF? How far we going to have to drive to surf? LAX to Indo? So we have to work more to make more $ to take trips because we can’t maintain our own breaks and state parks AT HOME? Pathetic. Where is the sign of intelligence? Or perhaps recreation is no longer necessary to our society and culture?
It’s not a glassing schedule, or fin template, or composite layout, but it’s surfing.
Look, I don’t intend to get political, but as we now know using certain resins in the US is an act of political defiance. So, it begs the question, what is political?
wtf? WTF? Where is the sign of intelligence?
A World apart, but similar fates?
<span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:6px">One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 “wolves” inside us all.
One is evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
So we have to work more to make more $ to take trips because we can’t maintain our own breaks and state parks AT HOME? Pathetic. Where is the sign of intelligence
You must have been visiting California again…
How about this one? State of California is well underway installing wi-fi internet access at many State Parks. No money, short staffed, hard time maintaining what property they manage, yet in the pc interests of all citizens they are installing wi-fi internet access in State Parks. Vulgar…
Stop the Toll Road. It’s not to late. Get involved. Salt Creek is a resort now. Killer Dana way long gone. Dana Strands under construction. Surf Doheny and get sick. This toll road will effect the beach from Cottons to the Trails. Developers suck. As our fellow Swaylockian Solosurfer appends to his posts;
If it don’t make sense; theres a buck in it somewhere.
It just does not make sense to ruin what little we have left.
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…"
Had the best Beat collection at one time but it’s gone now. Don’t know where. Everything from first edition OTR to first edition paperback OTR and first edition pennybook Howl to The First Third. Every Kerouac and satellite writer or critic. All gone except for the 1955 Paperback OTR which is so brittle it can’t be touched.
I could not go to Sactamento back in June, but I exchanged several emails with Brittany before she left and hopefully helped with some research to ground the arguments for her side. She needs bodies, numbers of voters. Support is power.
Program Director: Take 2, cue Howard. [left]Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. [left]We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be! [left]We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy. [left]It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone." [left]Well, I'm not going to leave you alone. [left]I want you to get mad! [left]I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. [left]All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. [left]You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!" [left]So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, [indent] [indent] [indent] [indent] [left]"I'm as mad as hell, [left]and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
Ponto is not threatened. The land around Ponto Jetties is being developed. I do not like the overall plan but the wave will still be there. Trestles is a totally different story. Please do not group the two together.
Less than 10 years ago that surf spot called Ponto Jetty did not even exist. The Batiquitos Lagoon restoration project when completed opened the Lagoon mouth and created the wave at Ponto Jetty. This is a man made wave like Oceanside harbor. The money used to restore the Batiquitos lagoon came from the leagal battles with the San Onofre power plant owners. Damage done to the kelp beds at San Onofre in exchange for money to restore other areas like the Batiquitos Lagoon. The biggest oppistion to the development at Ponto are the people who live in the conloy across from the campground. Houses less than 5 years old don’t want any more development!
I will not reply to your posts on this subject. Read the newspaper ,not just the headlines.
Ray, you raise some valid points, it is largely a NIMBY issue. I have no information on what type of a break existed there way, way back before the freeway; railroad, etc. changed the lagoon.
If the primary opposition is from the new homeowners across from the campgrounds then that is pretty pathetic. I have not read all of the articles but to my understanding most of the immediate uproar was in response to the City of Carlsbad trying to hurry through approval of the Vision Plan without a full environmental impact report. People know the land is in private hands and will be developed, they just want a say in how it is done.
I wish the City, County, or State had enough funds to buy the land and expand the existing park. Or better yet, move the existing campsites east of Coast Highway and return the bluff to natural habitat. But I know I’m dreaming.
