Mood: down
Topic: xtreme low tide
this week we're having one of the LOWEST tides ever along the Puget Sound and local beaches. -4.5 during the daytime is really cool. usually these low lows are late / early mornings.
I WAS INFORMED BY A DEPT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE OFFICER THAT NO LIVING THINGS ARE TO BE TAKEN OFFF THE BEACH- AND THE BEACH WAS NOW CLOSED---THERE WERE 9 OTHER WHITE PEOPLE THERE --STILL PICKING UP SOUVENIERS OFF THE BEACH. I WAS PHOTOGRAPHING A CARTILAGE OF SOME FISH HEAD WHEN I WAS INFORMED OF I NEEEDED TO PUT IT BACK. PEOPLE WERE TAKING ALL SORTS OF SOUVENIERS IN BUCKETS BACK TO THEIR HOMES NEARBY. THIS WAS HARRASSSMENT. TO DEFLECT FROM THEIR OWN GUILT -- WHITE POACHERS TURN IN nonwhiteS WHO ARE MERELY PHOTOGRAPHING NATURE. THEN HE SAID I COULD KEEP THE FISH CARTILAGE AFTER HE TOLD ME IT WAS ILLEGAL TO TAKE ANY LIVING ORGANISM OFF THE BEACH. THE CARTILAGE WAS NOT A living organism. HE COULD HAVE INFORMED IN A LESSS POMPOUS, AUTHOURITATIVE, WAY--- THEY SHOULD PAINT THE RAILINGS A SPECIAL COLOR - INFORMING THE PUBLIC OF THIS IS A PROTECTED AREA. . THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM GUIDES DID NOT ADMONISH PEOPLE WHO WERE DIGGING UP CLAMS AND TAKING THEM AWAY. OR THE PEOPLE HARVESTING THE BULL KELPS.
DID I GET PROFILED BY MY FEATURES? AM I IN A COMPUTER DATABASE OF BEACH CRIMINALS? HOMELAND SECURITY IS OUT OF HAND. DID HE QUESTION THE GUY SITTING ON THE LOGS WITH BOTH HANDS DOWN THE FRONT OF HIS PANTS GROANING LOUDLY AND STARING DOWN THE YOUNG GIRLS NEARBY? DID HE GO AFTER THE TEEEN LITTER BUGS? OR THE SMOKERS WHO LEAVE THEIR BUTTS BEHIND?