I posted this on FB but I realized that this is a more appropriate forum that may lead to finding an answer:
Alright; so I'm sitting on my sofa this morning checking my email when I hear the sound of waves pounding on the beach outside. This is odd because this time of year there are no boats to cause wakes and there was obviously no wind. Calm as death. At first I thought it was high tide and the storm had whipped up some waves. (I was still half-awake) Soooo.....
I headed out on to the deck to see just how high the water was. When I got on the deck I noticed that not only was the water very low, one of the lowest low tides I've seen here, but that the waves were radiating out from a spot of churned up water about 50 yards off shore. It looked as though something really big had splashed down into the river and had stirred up the water. Bubbles, foam etc. Really strange 'cause we have geese and other water birds landing out there all the time and they splash but come nowhere near making waves. Very curious. I was gonna let it pass but I thought that it was strange and as it was warm out I went to grab the kayak.
I dragged the kayak over the seawall and down the beach to the waters edge where I noticed the normally crystal clear water was really muddied and cloudy. I grabbed my paddle and pushed the kayak out into the water. Even 25 yards from shore the river is only about 2 feet deep at low tide and though cloudy I could see the bottom. I paddled out into the area where I'd seen the bubbles and where the concentric rings had seemed to emanate from. There the water seemed deeper and was too cloudy to see the bottom. It was also foggy, the air was still and motionless and no one to be seen on either side along the shore. It was actually kinda creepy and without a life jacket sitting so close to the water in a kayak I got a bit uncomfortable and decided to head in. Still don't know what it was that fell to earth but it had to be bigger than a basketball and smaller than a refrigerator, based upon the bubbling area. Any ideas? I know that if the next time you see me I look the same but appear emotionless and dull.....(Check to see if there's a bellybutton.)
November 15 at 9:05pm · Delete
Alright; so I'm sitting on my sofa this morning checking my email when I hear the sound of waves pounding on the beach outside. This is odd because this time of year there are no boats to cause wakes and there was obviously no wind. Calm as death. At first I thought it was high tide and the storm had whipped up some waves. (I was still half-awake) Soooo.....
I headed out on to the deck to see just how high the water was. When I got on the deck I noticed that not only was the water very low, one of the lowest low tides I've seen here, but that the waves were radiating out from a spot of churned up water about 50 yards off shore. It looked as though something really big had splashed down into the river and had stirred up the water. Bubbles, foam etc. Really strange 'cause we have geese and other water birds landing out there all the time and they splash but come nowhere near making waves. Very curious. I was gonna let it pass but I thought that it was strange and as it was warm out I went to grab the kayak.
I dragged the kayak over the seawall and down the beach to the waters edge where I noticed the normally crystal clear water was really muddied and cloudy. I grabbed my paddle and pushed the kayak out into the water. Even 25 yards from shore the river is only about 2 feet deep at low tide and though cloudy I could see the bottom. I paddled out into the area where I'd seen the bubbles and where the concentric rings had seemed to emanate from. There the water seemed deeper and was too cloudy to see the bottom. It was also foggy, the air was still and motionless and no one to be seen on either side along the shore. It was actually kinda creepy and without a life jacket sitting so close to the water in a kayak I got a bit uncomfortable and decided to head in. Still don't know what it was that fell to earth but it had to be bigger than a basketball and smaller than a refrigerator, based upon the bubbling area. Any ideas? I know that if the next time you see me I look the same but appear emotionless and dull.....(Check to see if there's a bellybutton.)
November 15 at 9:05pm · Delete
