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Date: Dec. 24, 2006
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It is always ironic that the beach I consider one of the safest beach is the one that reported the most recent shark attack. A surfer was bitten, then released, he’s as fine as can be expected with big teeth marks decorating his torso.
As soon as the shark attack was featured in the local paper, my clients asked me repeatedly about the danger of shark attacks off the Sonoma coast. Frankly, I worry about traffic accidents, sneaker waves, corked wine and slick roads. Sharks are at the bottom of my fear list. Sometimes I tell them that, and sometimes I tell my clients about my friend Joan.
Joan has children, well the children are big now so I can say she had children, anyway, when I asked her about the shark attack, Joan reported that she always took her children to Dillon Beach which, by the way, is technically in Marin, but you have to travel through a great deal of Sonoma county to get there and it has the gestalt of Sonoma County, rather than the high end, aren’t we fabulous yet organically grown, attitude of Marin.
So Joan regularly schlepped her boys to that beach because the beach was flat, in a bay, safe, shallow and they allow dogs. How could you miss? Plus, added bonus, this beach has logged in the most shark attacks of any Marin or Sonoma county beach. And here Joan was focused on the safety.
Perhaps if you take your children to potentially dangerous places, you spend more energy watching out for them – and end up with – ironically – safer children. Joan says she likes Dillon Beach better than most beaches around the area because there is no undertow and no sneaker waves. Joan waves away the “danger” of sharks since her five year olds were not surfing or behaving like seals. To her, sneaker waves are far more disturbing because, well, they sneak up on a person, or persons, and the sudden wave sucks you out and under – straight out to sea. And unlike our friend the Great White Shark, sneaker waves don’t spit you back out because you taste bad.
Allison Little first appears in Death Revokes the Offer – part of the Little Book series. Read about Allison on www.missbehaved.com. Learn more about Real Estate at www.CatharineBramkamp.com or www.Century21.com
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