3 Crosses

The bar across the entrance here is a treacherous bitch, they stopped dredging her a few years back, something about this harbor not being of a high enough usage. The fishing industry suffers due to many influences, some of her own making, some not. Crews come inexperienced, hung over and high or old, tired and burned out. This ocean is unforgiving of either. The stump of wood in the center is all that's left of last year's memorial to tragedy, the other two might have been erected in response to the burning of the original cross I have no idea.

Right now we are in the middle of springer season and I watched a few boaters play footsie with the bombie at the head of the south jetty, it's a dangerous game in a building swell. A kid came over to talk surf he had already gone out that morning to help with a capsizing, luckily this time nobody was lost. He left to surf elsewhere and I couldn't help think of the low adrenaline rush surfing must be in comparison to the regularity of sea rescues he encounters.