From SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug
and Patti Kishel
Fact, foto
& fun notes about surfing and the coast
Featured Fotos:
March is the windy month – the perfect time to fly a kite
on the beach. These photos from Seal Beach show how much fun it is.
If you need a kite or kite-flying lessons, talk to Jason
and Melissa at Up, Up & Away Kites
in Old Town Seal Beach. Than let out some string… and see how high you can fly!
Test
Your Knowledge:
1. A
young surfer is called a:
a. tadpole b. grom
c. munchkin
2. When
you’re riding a wave and are enclosed inside the tube you’re in the:
a. green room b.
boardroom c. control room
3. At
Bogart’s coffee shop in Seal Beach a painting of what well-known surfer is on
the wall?
a. Brett Simpson b.
Kelly Slater c. Michael Pless
4. People
who use lots of plastic bags or don’t recycle them are called:
a. Plasticos b.
Bag Monsters c. Cyclotrons
5. The
non-profit Surfrider Foundation, which protects the world’s oceans, waves and beaches,
was started 30 years ago at what beach?
a. Malibu b. Doheny
c. Huntington
Answers:
1.
b; 2. a;
3. c; 4. b; 5. a
Featured
Funnies:
Why
did the surfer cross the beach?
To get to the other tide.
Featured
Facts:
The sign on this early surfboard shop in Huntington Beach
was spelled wrong, but the owner kept it anyway to save money on a re-do.
Every year 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide.
Of those, 100 billion bags are used in the United States alone.
Seabed mining – excavating the resources on the ocean
floor – barely existed a decade ago. Now over 450,000 sq. mi. of sea bottom are under contract to mining
operators, creating questions about the effect this will have on the ocean
eco-system.
Gidget,
the “girl-midget” teenage surfer of the 1957 novel and 60s surfing movies, was
based on a real person, Kathy Kohner.
Author Frederick Kohner turned his daughter’s surfing adventures in Malibu into
the fictionalized stories that launched the surfing craze.
Even with the recent rains that California received, more
than 98% of the state remains in a drought, making it more important than ever
to emphasize water conservation.
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them to SurfWriter Girls and we’ll “Coast-it.”
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