B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for November 10, 2023

Need to stay further back from the water

It was great as a teenager sleeping on a rock at Laguna Niguel, until the tide came in and splashed us! Wakey, wakey!

I sea…..

A tidy alarm clock.

The ocean doesn’t say anything. It just waves.

Unfortunately the tides don’t follow the clock.

When we first moved to Florida, we joined a boat club. One day, we took a pontoon once to an offshore beach. Anchored it right by the shore and went about beach combing and sunbathing. We fell asleep. Next thing you know, the pontoon was completely beached and we couldn’t push it back into the water…not even with the help of 7 strong men on the beach. Had to call for help to be rescued. We were charged a fine, plus the gas for the boat that rescued us, plus wages of the crew that had to go back 12 hours later to retrieve the boat. That’s a mistake you only do ONCE.

I hope his shell owners insurance will cover the flooding…

Not so perfect there, John!

Here comes Mr. Picky!

Very little of what is called white noise is white noise. Those of us old enough to remember mid-20th century televisions know real white noise: the sound of a channel that has gone off the air. To be excruciatingly technical, we have heard blue noise as well: the sound of high pressure air escaping. Rapids in a river produce pink noise.

As a long time comm guy, white noise to me is like the sound of a baby crying.

John’s house got flooded. It’ll take a week to dry out all the furniture.

Don’t think they have daylight savings time!!!!!

There are of course ‘islands’ that are accessible on foot, but only at low tide. Bar Island (part of Acadia National Park, Maine) is one such. You can walk there at low tide, but if you stay too long you’d have to wait until the next low tide to walk back.

Suddenly i have to go potty. Can the tortoise go potty where he is?

The tide comes in and the tide goes out, then it comes back in. Every 24 hours and 50 minutes. High tides occur 12 hours and 25 minutes apart. The Earth rotates through two tidal “bulges” every lunar day. Its all about the strange gravity on the moon vs earth.

A friend of mine once stopped in a coastal town in Europe. He saw a line of cars parked on the beach and left his car there. He didn’t know that the locals all came and moved theirs before high tide!

Reminds me of camping in a tent on a barrier island behind a dune on the beach during one of several hurricanes during Labor Day weekend. People on site using the “coat hanger” stakes in the sand learned that tents can go airborne

The tide comes in the tide goes out.

In over your head, huh???

He’s in good hands with Allstate

A rather predictable alarm clock — whether one chooses to ignore it or not.

Gadzooks, the moon must be in the 7th house and Jupiter aligned with Mars. Poor fellow’s going to have a mildew problem.

Yes, perfect white noise… unfortunately it also triggers my tinnitus

Chaucer wrote, “Time and Tides wait for no man.” Apparently turtles are not an exception.

The tide is high and I’m holding on…