Half Moon Bay in October

Nate finished up a great Soccer season, then he and John celebrated by playing cowboys in their tighty whiteys.

It was about 85 degrees when Julie and the kids took off to Half Moon Bay...again, while Dan toiled away at work. Mom and Dad Call were here and obviously thought the UV rays were intense. Nate, John and Liza seemed to think it was ok, until we told them they were in Red Triangle waters. This is all the result of the "save the seals" efforts of the last 20 years--which has now left us with one of the largest Great White populations just off shore.

For those of you who are new to this Red Triangle thing, it's the very reason why my surfboard sits in my office as a decoration. Google it if you want.

You see, (borrowing from my good buds at Wikipedia), "...the Red Triangle is the colloquial name of a roughly triangle-shaped region off the coast of northern California, extending from Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco, out to a bit beyond the Farallon Islands, and down to the Big Sur region, south of Monterey.

The area has a very large population of marine mammals, such as elephant seals and sea lions, which are a favored meal of great white sharks. It has also been estimated that of all documented great white shark attacks on humans, more than half have occurred within the Red Triangle.

The area encompasses the beaches of the heavily-populated San Francisco Bay Area, and many people enjoy surfing, swimming and diving in these waters. Some have been attacked by great white sharks. The "Red" in 'Red Triangle' refers to the red blood in the water, after a shark has made its attack."

Call me overly cautious, but this why I limit myself to only swimming out 5 miles each morning rather than 6 miles.