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Visitor almost kills himself dodging storm waves at Montana de Oro State Park Visitor almost kills himself dodging storm waves at Montana de Oro State Park
Visitor almost kills himself dodging storm waves at Montana de Oro State Park

Early winter twenty-foot ocean swells and sleeper waves battered the Central California Coast today 07 Nov. 2009. I went out to shoot (photograph) surfers, but it was too wild for surfing activities at Morro Rock in Morro Bay, CA. Instead, I observed many visitors at the Montana de Oro State Park play dangerously at the water's edge on steep slippery rock outcroppings in Spooner's Cove at Montana de Oro State Park, near Los Osos, CA. These people do not recognize the danger in which they are placing themselves and their children. Every year some few die doing just what I am showing in this one snapshot. Venturing out on wet rocks at the edge of an ocean rage means that the water has already been where you are standing. When the tide is coming in, as it was here, and the swells arrive uneven, and in occasionally violent sets out of nowhere, death is just a second away. Photo by Michael "Mike" L. Baird, mike [at} mikebaird d o t com, flickr.bairdphotos.com; Canon 1D Mark III, Canon 600mm f/4.0 Lens with Circular Polarizer, on heavy Gitzo GZGT5540LS tripod with Wimberley Gimbal Head II on leveling base.
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Taken in: United States / California / Cuesta-by-the-Sea
Taken on: November 7, 2009
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Visitor almost kills himself dodging storm waves at Montana de Oro State Park Visitor almost kills himself dodging storm waves at Montana de Oro State Park

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