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Ask the expert: Freaky things in the water at Bolsa?
September 21st, 2009, 3:41 pm · 8 Comments · posted by Laylan Connelly, staff writer
Three-time international surf champ Corky Carroll answers your questions each week on the Beach Blog. To hit Corky up, e-mail him at corkysurf@aol.com:
Q. I surf with some moms at Bolsa. I’ve surfed at HB for the last 10 years, but the last few days there have been these freaky things in the water…. look like little green pieces of seaweed, but they swim really fast and bite and attach to your legs while you’re sitting on your board. And it’s hard to get them off!! Yikes! some land on their back on your board and they have a ton of little wiggly legs! What the heck are these things?!
A. Aliens from the undersea planet of Moo, obviously. I would stay clear of those little buggers. So, what I want to know is where you get your morning coffee, I wanna get some of that stuff. O.K., I am just kidding of course. Actually I have not encountered those things yet so I am not sure what they are. But if any of you reading this know anything about them please email me asap so I can get the word out. Corkysurf@aol.com
Q. Where you really the stunt double for “the Joker” in the original Batman movie?
A. No, he was the movie double for me. Actually that myth came from somebody at the Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach when they put my old Batboard on display. The board was made right after the Batman Television series came out in the mid 1960’s. I rode it in the finals of the 1966 World Championships in San Diego and then retired it. The only doubling I did was as a “voice model” for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Cowabunga.
Q. Are there still south swells on Oahu in October?
A. Yep. That is actually a nice time to go to the Islands. You can catch both late season south swells on the south side and also early season west swells on the North Shore and West Shore. Weekdays are good, all the agro brats are back in school. Good choice.
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Corky, don’t forget you also did the voice of Grubby Grouper on SpongeBob. I always have a laugh when I see this.
I had an encounter with one of those freaky things as well, here on the Central Coast.. I saw it wiggle toward me, and I batted it away. Then it came after me again. So again I slapped it away again, and it came back a THIRD time. This time, as I tried to slap it, it stuck to my hand for a split second.
Freaked me out. And I’m sure the other guys in the lineup thought I was some sort of a loon slapping at the water like that.
Glad to heard I’m not the only one to encounter these things. But I have no idea what it was. It had lots of little legs and what looked like two antennae.
Haa, this isn’t like that one time when there was a rumor of killer snakes coming out of the new Bolsa inlet so people would stay away from the new break, is it? Seriously, I was out this morning and saw something jump out of the water, like a flying fish, and thought of this post. I’m gonna freak out if something weird tries to stick to me.
No, these are for real. Just make sure they don’t find their way into your wetsuit. The moist warmth causes them to go into hyper gestation and they will plant eggs under the dermal layer of skin which is particularly porous during surfing. Then the worms grow inside you. Kinda gross.
Ok seriously. That is so gross. What if they are at Sunset too??! I’m not coming to the Tribal Surf outing. Haa.
We discovered an effective repellent comprised of a particular combination of herbs found only in the Peruvian terraced hillsides of Machu Pichu. We always bring more than enough to our outings. It’s all good.
Sweet, I’m gonna try my best to make it down. Competing with the Dale Velzy at Doho, you know.
I think I have seen those things on the beach but never out in the water. I saw one on the bathroom wall at T-street. About an inch and a half long. A hundred legs. Really fast. That was the first time a seen one and it was about 5 years ago. I can attest that it looked kinda freaky. I have seen them occasionally since then. Damn, they’ve learned to swim!