today i saw this"thing" coming right at me in a wave
i was all alone at 6:15 am, surf sucked, cold too
normally i can ID it as a dolphin
i wait for it to come up for air if i cant see distinguishing dolphin features
its always a dolphin
except for today
i thought it was gonna either run me over or bite me cuz it was comin at me very fast in the wave, i braced for impact, keeping my board between me and it
now ive seen thousands of dolphins do this in person (ride a wave)
this time it was scary and i paddled in quickly after it never came up for air
i watched from the beach for a while , it never came up for air, that i saw
and it was just one creature, not a school, like i usually see
i keep thinkin "i think this time it was a shark"
it was about the size of a large dolphin, i couldnt see its face or tail fin to ID it in the few seconds
i cant say for sure it was a shark, but i think it was
then i saw my friend and told him the story
he said "its probably the same great white that chased my friend out of the water yesterday a few blocks away"
which is puttin me in the "75% chance that was a shark"
and i really want it to be a dolphin
btw that picture i found online is a dolphin, was in a wave with its school, just looked like what i saw so i used it here
original pic: https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/YBh6smpfqc8LAq7KVtmah/27d135ee-a0f0-4c8e-88fc-36a3ddc9d01d.jpg/r0_0_2048_1365_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg
i was all alone at 6:15 am, surf sucked, cold too
normally i can ID it as a dolphin
i wait for it to come up for air if i cant see distinguishing dolphin features
its always a dolphin
except for today
i thought it was gonna either run me over or bite me cuz it was comin at me very fast in the wave, i braced for impact, keeping my board between me and it
now ive seen thousands of dolphins do this in person (ride a wave)
this time it was scary and i paddled in quickly after it never came up for air
i watched from the beach for a while , it never came up for air, that i saw
and it was just one creature, not a school, like i usually see
i keep thinkin "i think this time it was a shark"
it was about the size of a large dolphin, i couldnt see its face or tail fin to ID it in the few seconds
i cant say for sure it was a shark, but i think it was
then i saw my friend and told him the story
he said "its probably the same great white that chased my friend out of the water yesterday a few blocks away"
which is puttin me in the "75% chance that was a shark"
and i really want it to be a dolphin
btw that picture i found online is a dolphin, was in a wave with its school, just looked like what i saw so i used it here
original pic: https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/YBh6smpfqc8LAq7KVtmah/27d135ee-a0f0-4c8e-88fc-36a3ddc9d01d.jpg/r0_0_2048_1365_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg