Touring a New Campground and Walking the Beach with John

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[0:00] I'm working on the fountain.
[0:02] Someone sent their space up in there. Of
[0:07] course. You want to share? Trying to
[0:09] distract my brain. Those are pretty. Are
[0:12] they real or no? No, they're not real.
[0:16] They're nice looking.
[0:18] I've never been in here, John. So, do
[0:21] these turn on? Yeah, they're lights.
[0:25] Nice. I like the stent structure. It
[0:28] does.
[0:29] Wow. So, do they all go down like this?
[0:32] These covers? Oh, yeah. I have covers
[0:35] all the way around, including the doors.
[0:38] Okay. I don't use them, but they come
[0:40] with came with all
[0:46] those hide all the
[0:52] acrylic. Come on, guys. Very nice,
[0:56] John.
[0:57] You know what I like most about
[1:00] John? At first, he misunderstood me when
[1:03] I met him, but somehow he figured me out
[1:06] and he never tried to change me after
[1:08] that. He just witnessed me. He became my
[1:11] friend.
[1:13] And he rolls with everything. This man
[1:16] joking around with me now saying I can
[1:18] never sit still. He's doing this last
[1:20] night.
[1:22] And you know that's only a friend could.
[1:25] This man doesn't try to change me. He
[1:28] lost me record by
[1:34] YouTube. He's a rare
[1:36] soul. We're going to go out to the
[1:38] beach. He's going to just sit and chill
[1:40] on the beach while I go walking down it
[1:42] tracing the waves. So I heading back to
[1:45] my RV here. Just going to grab a new pop
[1:48] so that I have something to take with
[1:50] me.
[1:52] and then we'll be
[1:54] out. That's a nice sight right
[1:57] there. It's a beautiful spot, too.
[2:00] Definitely like to come back to this
[2:02] one.
[2:03] So,
[2:06] yeah, it's a good day. Every day is a
[2:09] good day, though, to me. I truly believe
[2:11] that. I don't Doesn't matter what's
[2:14] going on, it's always a good
[2:15] day. Okay, let's head out of here.
[2:19] So, I found the shower
[2:21] house. Need to get down there. That's
[2:23] about to become a luxury for
[2:26] me. Um, they're individual showers,
[2:28] which makes them perfect. I don't like
[2:31] the shared shower facilities. As a gay
[2:32] man, I've never felt safe in them.
[2:35] Nobody wants to get naked around other
[2:37] men, especially straight men who can
[2:40] react very badly to gay
[2:42] men. So, I really hate the campgrounds
[2:46] that have shared facilities.
[2:49] But some of the
[2:50] parks, they've been upgrading their
[2:53] infrastructure and I think it's this
[2:55] way. Um, they've been upgrading their
[2:58] infrastructure. Way nicer shower houses.
[3:01] They're quite nice. So, I just got to
[3:04] get my shower back together. I want to
[3:05] get all my stuff together. Reintegrate
[3:08] cuz I've been showering in my RV for
[3:10] months as a volunteer. I had full
[3:12] hookups. Made a lot easier. Can't do
[3:14] that now. So, uh, reintegrate the
[3:17] process of showering at the shower
[3:18] houses and still taking good care of
[3:20] myself, putting moisturizers on and
[3:22] stuff like that. Um, things that make my
[3:25] eyes look less puffy and get rid of
[3:27] those wrinkles around the
[3:30] eyes. It's okay though. I'm still
[3:34] beautiful, as I always
[3:36] say.
[3:38] Um, something else I was going to
[3:40] mention, forgot
[3:42] now. Let's see.
[3:49] No, that thought's gone. I'll be back.
[3:52] So, John's having a very good day. He's
[3:54] getting pins and patches and bags and
[3:57] all kinds of stuff. He's talking about
[3:59] that. Then he goes, "Sorry, I know how
[4:01] much you really wanted to be here cuz
[4:03] he's the sweetest man ever." I said,
[4:05] "Don't worry. I can hold both
[4:06] realities." He says, "I figured you
[4:08] could." Cuz that's how that's how much
[4:09] we know each other. It's wonderful.
[4:12] We're going out to the beach
[4:16] now. I'll just record for a little
[4:19] while. I want my memories.
[4:29] I thought I figured
[4:37] one side of my awning's like that. I
[4:39] need I was just thinking I need WD40 for
[4:41] that.
[4:42] or the silicon.
[4:46] We'll be heading out in a moment.
[4:48] Probably going to buy the silicon spray.
[4:50] It's a little more expensive, but it's
[4:51] supposedly better. There firewood's
[4:53] behind this, right? Yeah. Okay. Hope so.
[4:59] Yeah.
[5:02] It's a very nice site. This is
[5:06] You know, they they really take care of
[5:08] their volunteers here cuz this is a nice
[5:10] site. I mean, well, this is new. All
[5:11] this got new from that damn storm damage
[5:14] last year that shut him down.
[5:16] Well, plus everything you told, you
[5:18] know. Well, yeah. They're making a real
[5:21] strong effort to make us happy, and
[5:24] that's important to hear. Yes.
[5:32] And never got to meet him in person, but
[5:34] I knew he was a good person.
[5:37] And maybe I'll run into them on the
[5:39] campground and I'll say, "I told you
[5:41] there was an inevitability." Even though
[5:43] I'm not going to be here.
[5:46] The insects are starting to What is
[5:48] that? That is so weird.
[5:51] Whatever that is. This white specks. Oh,
[5:54] it came off.
[5:56] Look with the light. With the light
[5:58] fibers. Yeah, the fibers on
[6:01] I really hate these. They're so ugly
[6:03] looking. I don't like being seen with
[6:05] them. They're a really nice couple here.
[6:07] You're the youngest people. Okay.
[6:11] Um, you know, when I walk around these
[6:13] campgrounds now, John, you know, I see a
[6:16] ranger or volunteer and they're waving
[6:18] to me or whatever. I'm thinking, do they
[6:20] know me? Have they seen my videos? What
[6:22] do they think? All of that because how
[6:25] could I
[6:27] not? But it's okay. Just going to be
[6:30] myself. Let people form their own
[6:31] opinions.
[6:35] I'll show us the view out here. It's a
[6:38] nice
[6:39] campground. Making a walk to the beach
[6:41] now. We're going to the trash first.
[6:43] Well, it's on our way. Okay.
[6:46] Did you go down to see that trailer I
[6:49] was talking about? Oh, I never made it
[6:50] out of the my RV. So, it should still be
[6:52] here. Okay. Unless they were checking
[6:54] out at one. I um when I saw it, holy
[6:58] crap. Of all trailers to be there,
[6:59] that's the one I told you that your Jeep
[7:01] would pull. Oh, okay. I remember that
[7:02] day. So, hope they're there then.
[7:06] Unfortunately, even though you'll see
[7:08] how small it is. It's my Jeep or a Jeep
[7:10] truck. No, your Jeep. Okay. Yeah.
[7:12] Basically, it that's what it's You'll
[7:14] see it. It's a little
[7:16] CRV pulling it. Meant for Remember, I'm
[7:20] going your pace, so don't let me don't
[7:21] let me lead. Yeah. So, yeah, they're
[7:24] meant for small compact vehicles.
[7:27] They're actually They look small from
[7:29] the outside, but inside the space is
[7:31] amazing. because it's got a
[7:34] V-shaped dinette booth with a table
[7:37] V-shaped and then that drops and that
[7:40] makes a queen-siz bed at night and it
[7:42] has a bathroom, a kitchen. Oh, that
[7:44] would be nice. Something modular like
[7:46] that. Nice. And it's windows all around
[7:48] you. Okay. Just amazing. Cool. It sounds
[7:51] nice. Absolutely fell in love. I went
[7:52] and was at Tugman last year and this
[7:56] lesbian couple had it. You know, that
[7:58] right there is not a bad pop-up camper
[8:00] because most of it's solid. Yeah, it's
[8:02] solid except for the front and the back.
[8:04] That's what unfolds. So, you can leave
[8:07] it closed. Yeah. And drop the dinette
[8:09] down. So, if you're in bad conditions,
[8:11] you don't want a tent. That would be
[8:13] nice. What do you think they're um
[8:15] called? Still a pop-up camp. It's just a
[8:18] hybrid. It's just going to fall under
[8:21] trying to keep other people off this
[8:22] camera here. So, I'm tilting it when I
[8:25] Yeah. fall under compact trailers.
[8:27] Humans detected. Mhm.
[8:31] Hello. More room. It's rough.
[8:35] You can go on the rough surface.
[8:38] Yeah. But I think the I call it the
[8:41] snail. It has some other name. I think
[8:42] it's snail in some other language.
[8:45] Spanish or something like that. But the
[8:46] popup camper talking about Okay. Okay.
[8:49] It is a popup, but it's acrylic. Oh. And
[8:53] solid. So there's no tenting, right? So
[8:56] stability is really it's just very safe
[8:59] on a vehicle to take. Okay. Your safety.
[9:04] You're so kind. I mean, as a camper, you
[9:07] go to a remote area, you want to be able
[9:09] to lock your door, just take Well, plus
[9:11] my stuff, you know. Yeah, exactly.
[9:14] Somebody wants to get in a popup tent or
[9:16] pop out tent. Yeah, that's pretty easy.
[9:18] Yeah. Two seconds, they're in. Yeah.
[9:26] I kind of like that truck one there. I
[9:28] saw this one earlier cuz it looks like
[9:30] they go up like really high. Almost like
[9:33] it's two stories in a way. It's designed
[9:35] to give you when it's down very little
[9:39] wind resistance. Uhhuh. But then once
[9:42] once it's up, you got full headroom,
[9:44] right? But again, you have to get the
[9:47] new thermal ones. It's probably one of
[9:49] the ones because the material needs to
[9:52] be able to handle cold. Do you know what
[9:55] this is? I couldn't figure out what that
[9:56] is up there. Those weird looking white
[9:58] ball things. Oh, that's vents. Vents.
[10:01] Pulling air just to pull air out of the
[10:05] building. Very commercial.
[10:08] Saw that yesterday. These trees are were
[10:11] supposed to be taken down, but I guess
[10:12] they big trees stopped acorns.
[10:19] I just love some of the root systems on
[10:21] these over here by the creek. This is a
[10:24] nice spot. I saw this yesterday. Thought
[10:26] the same thing. This is a nice Oh,
[10:28] there's a creek right there. Yeah. It'
[10:31] be a nice place to camp, too. I was
[10:32] looking at, you know, it' be tent
[10:34] camping or dry camping, but near the
[10:36] ocean really well. Yeah. Yeah. Your
[10:38] motor. Yeah. You could squeeze the Jeep
[10:40] in them side by side. Yeah. Like I said,
[10:44] I'm hoping these people haven't left yet
[10:46] cuz you'll I think you'd really like Oh,
[10:48] so they're up at the front of the park.
[10:49] That's why you said if you go to the
[10:51] beach. Gotcha. Yeah.
[10:54] Yeah. I notice that's where all the
[10:57] people congregate. It's up there. Well,
[11:00] it makes sense cuz they want one, you
[11:01] hearing the roar of the ocean. Yeah. And
[11:03] then second, you've got really easy walk
[11:07] to the ocean cuz like here where I am
[11:10] and you are, we're way way
[11:13] back. This is another nice couple that's
[11:16] coming up too. Yeah. Damn it. See if I
[11:18] left. Okay. Well, if you know what it's
[11:20] called, I'll Google it. Like I said,
[11:22] it's like I'm sorry, Alto or something
[11:25] like that. Okay. you I'll look at it see
[11:28] if I can find it online cuz it is like I
[11:31] said when I saw it last year it's about
[11:33] a even though it's a small trailer it's
[11:35] about 15,000 okay it's not cheap but
[11:39] for your purpose it's good quality and
[11:41] you know you would sell your motor home
[11:43] and be able to pay cash for it keep a
[11:45] Jeep be you know a perfect combination
[11:48] for you
[11:50] huh yeah they left it yeah you're right
[11:53] I could do that couldn't I even though I
[11:55] have even though it's Binance if I sell
[11:56] out for more than it's finest. Yeah,
[11:58] exactly. And it's really, you
[12:01] know, simple. It has everything you
[12:03] would need in it. That's a cool looking
[12:07] um I'll pause
[12:10] this. Your motor home's right there,
[12:12] man. It's exactly like
[12:14] yours. You see it? It's even got the
[12:17] blue
[12:19] light. There's another one here
[12:22] like another popup style. Yeah.
[12:27] But again, it just means you have
[12:28] corrugated
[12:30] roof. No, it's a it's that material. Oh,
[12:34] I see it now. Yeah. See, this is a
[12:37] smaller version. The spaceship spaceship
[12:39] material. So, I think this is the same
[12:41] vehicle. I love this one. I love that
[12:43] one. I did. It's more you because it's
[12:45] it's a smaller design.
[12:47] Oh, they got pretty nice.
[12:57] Yeah. So, we had to drive all the way
[12:59] down here. All our supplies for the year
[13:01] are in the woodshed. It's
[13:03] like going down the list of things
[13:06] going, maybe you might want to think of
[13:08] this, maybe you want to think about
[13:09] that. And they liked it because again
[13:12] they're stumbling along still within the
[13:15] management because their whole team
[13:17] almost well they have a lot of longtime
[13:20] ranges here but their major ones are all
[13:22] within the last year to 3 years. So
[13:26] they're still learning.
[13:29] This is a nice feature for a park. The
[13:31] ice ice machines. That's nice. Put some
[13:34] maps in there and stuff. Yeah. like down
[13:37] at um it's what they do at
[13:40] um oh man I can't ever remember names
[13:45] that place in um in Brookings
[13:49] can't remember the name of it those
[13:52] places there Harris Beach Harris
[13:54] Beach that it's nice
[13:56] park where that man flirted with
[14:00] me I'll never forget it that was a
[14:04] moment
[14:06] This is one thing I always loved about
[14:07] Oregon State Parks is how they recycle
[14:09] so many different kinds of things. Yeah,
[14:12] we have everything. All the different I
[14:14] don't see a propane one. No, that's one
[14:16] thing they don't seem to have. I was
[14:18] going to ask him that. I forgot. Yeah,
[14:20] every park's different.
[14:23] Yeah. Yeah. It depends on I found out
[14:25] with when we were at Tugman that Randy
[14:28] said it's a county warning ordinance.
[14:33] Okay. that um Oh, so they're required to
[14:36] do it. Some Well, no. What happens is
[14:38] some counties won't allow it. Oh, okay.
[14:41] See,
[14:42] so they can't do it, but they would
[14:45] rather what? They get thrown in the
[14:46] trash. I don't know cuz it's like one of
[14:49] those in the trash and you compress it
[14:50] down. Yep. Boom. That's what a guest
[14:53] said to me when I was at Huntingman
[14:54] because they were asking me about it and
[14:56] that's what they said to me and I didn't
[14:57] know that was a thing and I was like,
[14:59] "Wow." Yeah. You mean so every time I've
[15:01] been compacting this thing, there's a
[15:03] chance that was in there. Yeah.
[15:08] I was going to Google that and see if
[15:09] there were any videos. I didn't I didn't
[15:13] Yeah. You know, because because people
[15:16] do it. Yeah. A lot of people are like
[15:18] you that like the video. So the odds are
[15:21] it's over there. I like this bridge.
[15:24] Yeah. You know that cement piece? It
[15:26] looks like a you know almost like a
[15:28] scene. The oval shape. It looked like
[15:30] one piece. I couldn't see any lines.
[15:33] Well, what's cool is on the new stickers
[15:35] that they've, you know, done for all the
[15:36] parks and all the new signs. This is our
[15:40] sign. Ours. That's what's on ours now.
[15:42] It's this bridge. Oh, okay. Cool. That's
[15:45] the other thing the woman wanted to
[15:46] know. How long does it take to build it?
[15:48] Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Like,
[15:50] shut up, please. I want it so bad. Shut
[15:53] up.
[15:56] Thought I was being nice. Of course you
[15:58] were. There were a whole bunch of people
[16:00] coming in this morning while we were in
[16:02] the doing the orientation. They just car
[16:05] after car pulling in. There are
[16:07] volunteers everywhere just doing all
[16:09] kinds of things. See, there's one over
[16:10] there. I mean, they're just just
[16:11] everywhere. They're everywhere. I guess
[16:14] this will be the day use area. Yeah.
[16:19] Yeah.
[16:25] I don't see a
[16:27] Oh, I thought that was It's just a bike.
[16:29] Okay, never mind. It's a bike. I thought
[16:31] it was um thought it was a a golf cart.
[16:38] Hello.
[16:43] Hello. Yeah.
[16:52] Now, I know there there's a big
[16:54] difference between a summer beach and a
[16:56] winter beach. The summer beach is going
[16:58] to have a big sand going way out. A big
[17:01] why? They'll have a big sandy beach
[17:03] going way out. Okay. I love when a river
[17:06] goes into the ocean. Me, too. They're
[17:08] making love to each other. Yep. That's
[17:11] what I call it. They're all a lot. You
[17:14] know, they're melting together. Yep.
[17:18] It's awesome.
[17:21] See, that's your rock. I wonder how we
[17:23] get over there. I haven't been on that
[17:25] side. I mean, I guess you can walk over
[17:27] that, but I don't want to get wet. Yes.
[17:29] Yes, you can. Me?
[17:33] Oh, right.
[17:34] Right. Um,
[17:37] there must be a way though. Well, you go
[17:39] through. Yeah. Well, no.
[17:43] Yeah, over there. That's what I was
[17:44] thinking. Maybe there's a way over
[17:45] there. Well, the path is washed away,
[17:47] but yeah, you still can
[17:50] go down. Oh, there's a lot of driftwood,
[17:53] too, to get around. Yeah, the path's
[17:55] totally gone. This is all good. But
[17:58] normally your beach like this. There's
[18:01] the ocean way out there before. There
[18:04] she is.
[18:06] Look how that spreads out. So,
[18:09] yeah. Let me make sure I got, you know,
[18:12] I'm not even looking at my camera here.
[18:16] A little
[18:19] puppies. Bend this down cuz there's
[18:21] people all over at the start. Careful,
[18:23] buddy.
[18:25] Be careful with that lake of yours.
[18:32] Um, this feels very
[18:34] rocky. Where's the beach
[18:36] at? Wait a minute. Is this high tide?
[18:42] I don't think so because yesterday it
[18:45] did not look like this, John.
[18:48] Yesterday the ocean was out further.
[18:53] Right now, let me pause. There's a lot
[18:55] of people around. Okay. Well, we didn't
[18:57] pick the perfect time because it feels
[18:59] like the ocean is,
[19:03] you know, I see them. I don't
[19:07] care. Don't care.
[19:10] Whoa, here comes the ocean. Ocean, I
[19:14] love
[19:14] you. Oh, man. And you're going to tell
[19:17] me this ain't high tide. We're checking
[19:18] the app, John.
[19:21] It's damn close. You're up on the rocks,
[19:25] man. I can't trace the waves like
[19:28] this. We came at the wrong time. It's
[19:31] hours before we can be out
[19:35] here. I don't want to just sit still.
[19:39] Oh my god, this is the worst time to be
[19:42] here, John.
[19:48] I'm going to check my app. Can't trace
[19:51] the wave till later. It's literally not
[19:53] possible right now. I guess I'll look at
[19:56] it for a while. I mean, there's a small
[19:58] stretch of land up there. I might go
[20:00] check it
[20:01] out, but this isn't how I experience the
[20:04] ocean.
[20:06] So, you know, this is on me. I don't
[20:09] ever check the
[20:10] app. Be careful, man. This
[20:13] is That's how about over there where the
[20:16] sand is at. That's all wrong. Well, you
[20:19] know, that's what I mean. I can't walk
[20:21] to this. Okay.
[20:25] Sorry, we just came at the wrong time.
[20:28] But I just want to get away from
[20:31] Yeah, I understand.
[20:33] Um,
[20:36] still she's out there. It's nice sign.
[20:40] But, you know, if the if the um the tide
[20:43] is like this now, it's probably a couple
[20:45] hours before it calms
[20:48] down. I can't trace this. So, that kind
[20:52] of defeats what I had
[20:53] planned. But, I I might still try. I
[20:56] might walk down there. There's a little
[20:58] bit of Let me check the app actually
[20:59] because um if this isn't high tide that
[21:02] means it's going to come up even
[21:04] higher. So yeah, I don't want to get
[21:06] stuck out there. I'm going to check the
[21:07] app. Say bye
[21:10] darn the house and filled in the car
[21:13] park with the water where their cars
[21:15] were. It was just couldn't believe it.
[21:18] Now that house is gone burned down in
[21:20] those Oh yeah, you told me about that
[21:21] one. So sad. No, it wasn't my house.
[21:24] It's just sad to think. Is that the one
[21:26] where you were house boy? Yeah. Yep.
[21:29] Okay. Yep. I was
[21:34] I love that story, John. Yeah.
[21:37] I was never a house boy. I bet I could
[21:39] have been one, though. Yeah.
[21:42] I was such a twink back then. Total
[21:45] [ __ ] twink. I was like 130 lb. I'll
[21:48] show you some pictures someday. Yeah, I
[21:50] was 150, but
[21:53] Okay. Well, still. Yeah.
[21:55] I mean, I guess technically I kind of am
[21:57] out cuz I'm 150 lbs again. Yeah. But
[22:01] very much
[22:02] older, though. Very athletic. So, you
[22:05] know, I was very toned and that's what
[22:07] he liked. Okay. I just wish I would have
[22:10] He would, you know, he very rarely came
[22:12] out of the house. Yeah. So, I enjoyed
[22:14] when he
[22:15] did very attractive man and a lot of fun
[22:18] if
[22:19] they waiting for these waves to come
[22:22] back in under the rocks.
[22:27] It's so cool to look out there and just
[22:29] see it building up. Like it's just it's
[22:32] ferocious. Well, way out there where
[22:34] those waves are getting really big and
[22:35] breaking, that's because there's rocks
[22:37] out there under the water. Okay. There's
[22:39] a reef. That's what causes it to go up
[22:41] and break. Do you ever get to see that
[22:43] any time of year or like you were
[22:46] saying, the beach changes in different
[22:48] seasons? Mhm. I know there's negative
[22:50] tides, but it probably doesn't go out
[22:51] that far.
[22:55] You know what a negative tide is, right?
[22:56] Yeah. Okay. No, but yeah, it's just it's
[22:59] when the beach, you know, when the ocean
[23:01] pulls back and you can see underneath
[23:02] it. Yeah.
[23:05] It's all part of the king tide. They
[23:07] call it king tide up here. Oh, they
[23:09] refer to it as king tide because it gets
[23:11] really high, but people don't a lot of
[23:14] people don't realize it also means it
[23:16] gets the very lowest as well. I didn't
[23:18] know that. So that Okay, cuz I saw the
[23:20] negative tide when it was around king
[23:21] tie time. So, so it's only Okay. It's
[23:24] not all year round then. No, when we
[23:26] have a king tide, we have a negative
[23:28] tide. Okay, cool. I didn't know that. I
[23:30] love learning this stuff. That pictures
[23:32] the pictures I took of the those waves
[23:35] shooting rocks. Yeah. Those rocks I was
[23:38] on never they're they're always
[23:40] underwater. Still a negative. Oh man.
[23:44] So, there's so much to experience still.
[23:46] Yeah. Slippery though because it's all
[23:48] things that you don't even expect to
[23:50] see. Algae. Yeah. But it's beautiful to
[23:53] go out, but I had to be really careful
[23:56] that I didn't trip. But it was worth
[23:58] going
[24:02] out. I love the way the waves
[24:06] just come in all different directions
[24:08] and then they're intersect with each
[24:10] other and all these patterns it makes.
[24:13] My mind just goes crazy over this stuff
[24:15] just looking at it.
[24:17] It's just fascinating when it does that.
[24:19] when the um I don't know how to describe
[24:21] this, but the wave doesn't really come
[24:23] in, but it's like um um churning. It's
[24:26] churning. That is so cool. I mean, look
[24:30] at this. This is literally the sea shell
[24:32] of something that's probably a million
[24:33] or 3 4 million years old. Yeah, that's
[24:36] what fascinates me. These are all broken
[24:38] seashells. So, this was sediment on the
[24:41] bottom of the ocean. All you Yeah, we
[24:44] clearly see the shells. Yeah, that one
[24:45] you can, but it's very tiny. So, this
[24:48] just
[24:49] formed turned into a rock and now it's
[24:52] it's smoothed out from the ocean. But I
[24:54] just fascinates me to so like you know I
[24:58] find it interesting. It just doesn't
[24:59] capture my attention I guess cuz the
[25:02] longer I do find it interesting. The
[25:03] longer they're in rock. Yeah. Under
[25:06] under rock that's when the shell turns
[25:08] to rock or stone. Right now these are
[25:11] actual sea shells still even though it
[25:12] might be several million years old
[25:14] they're still the calcium is still in
[25:16] them. Okay. This is just showing how
[25:19] many were on this section of It hasn't
[25:21] petrified yet. Is that what you're
[25:22] saying? No. Yeah. Okay. These it'll
[25:24] never petrify because this bro broke
[25:27] off. This was still on underneath a
[25:30] bunch of other rocks. Then it will
[25:31] petrify. Okay. So, yeah, these are very
[25:34] what they're called very young rocks.
[25:35] Got some kids playing with crates over
[25:38] here. You know, I did that as a kid.
[25:41] They always make them rainbow colored. I
[25:43] turn them into rainbows. It's kind of
[25:45] funny.
[25:49] And that's the beauty of Hawaii. Rainbow
[25:51] is a symbol.
[25:55] Really? Yep. You don't buy anything with
[25:58] a rainbow on it cuz it's in there. It's
[25:59] a state symbol. I mean, we got clouds
[26:02] out there, but I looked at the weather
[26:04] report. We should have a good day the
[26:05] whole time. Yeah.
[26:08] Oh, it's already a better day than
[26:09] yesterday. Yeah, it is.
[26:12] It looks pretty. These clouds do.
[26:18] You know what I think I want to do one
[26:20] day? I want to take a a ship across the
[26:23] ocean. Best one
[26:26] to Hawaii, maybe? Hawaii. Okay. There's
[26:28] only one ship that goes from Southern
[26:31] California to Hawaii. A friend of mine
[26:33] goes on it every year. She just got back
[26:35] from it about Do you know what it's
[26:37] called? It's one of the Princess
[26:38] cruises. Okay. Okay. I can Google that.
[26:41] It's a 10-day cruise because 10 days.
[26:43] Okay. takes three days there and back or
[26:45] just Well, yeah. You leave San Pedro,
[26:48] you're at sea for three days, then it
[26:51] cruises around the islands. So, you
[26:53] goshore on three islands. Yeah, three
[26:56] islands. Okay. And then 3 days back. So,
[26:58] it's a total of a 10-day cruise. I can't
[27:01] wait to go on. I really want to go on.
[27:03] It's not cheap, but you can get a room
[27:06] with just a port window, which is fine
[27:08] cuz I ain't going to stay in my room.
[27:10] Yeah. I I go on deck. I go Absolutely.
[27:13] But well, if things work out, you know,
[27:15] and I do start making good money again,
[27:17] you and I are definitely doing that.
[27:18] Yeah, it's an experience.
[27:21] I don't want to go out on deck at night,
[27:22] just look at the stars. There's nothing
[27:25] I I took three cruises and I went on
[27:29] one. The first one I went on was out
[27:32] when I got
[27:33] offshore, there was 1,600 people on the
[27:36] ship and there were probably four people
[27:39] on deck at night. And you sat in the
[27:42] lounger and the sky was glowing with
[27:45] stars in the Milky Way. Yeah. Shooting
[27:48] the star. It you could see the planets
[27:50] with your own bare eyes. The satellites
[27:52] now. Yeah. Satellites going by.
[27:56] When I went on the one that went along
[27:58] with the color. Wow. That was really
[28:00] turnurning. Like that was Yeah. Well, it
[28:02] turns because this wave is coming in and
[28:05] then one forward is coming down. Oh,
[28:07] okay. Okay. I wonder why it did this.
[28:09] Okay. I knew it had something to do with
[28:11] more than one way, but I didn't figure
[28:13] that part out. If you didn't grow up at
[28:14] the beach, you probably may or may not
[28:16] have heard of rip tides. I mean, I don't
[28:18] need the words. I don't know what it
[28:20] means. What a what that's what a riptide
[28:22] is is the shape of the beach causes a
[28:26] all these waves are coming in underneath
[28:28] these waves are water going out. Okay.
[28:31] Oh, that's awesome. It Well, not if
[28:33] you're in it. Well, it's still awesome.
[28:35] It'll pull you out to
[28:36] see the ground. Okay. Cuz there's
[28:38] nothing you you have to know to swim
[28:42] side to side. If you try to swim towards
[28:45] the beach, that makes sense. Nothing
[28:46] would ever happen. That makes sense.
[28:48] You're just slowly curving yourself
[28:49] almost like a body of um you know, like
[28:51] a celestial object. Yeah. So if you were
[28:54] ever in the ocean, okay, I'll do that. I
[28:57] understand. Pulling you out. Swim one
[29:00] side or the other. Yeah, I get it. And
[29:01] you'll feel the change like a curve.
[29:03] Yeah. It's a
[29:05] strong South Jetty Beach where we were
[29:07] at, you probably wouldn't have noticed
[29:09] it, but there were waves coming in
[29:10] different angles. That's because of the
[29:12] currents under Oh, yeah. I noticed I
[29:13] noticed that strong riptides. I just
[29:15] don't understand um the physics behind
[29:19] it all yet. And the steeper the the
[29:22] beach is, the stronger the current going
[29:25] out. If it's real shallow going out, it
[29:28] gets doesn't get very interesting. All
[29:31] then you have a is it because it builds
[29:33] up velocity or something or okay force
[29:35] of physics. Okay. And like I said water
[29:38] passes under the in heavy waves. Then
[29:41] you have um a side current. So you could
[29:44] go in the water here and an hour later
[29:47] you're way down there if you're not
[29:48] paying attention. I think I'm
[29:52] detected. Got to say hi to this man.
[29:54] Okay. I'm going to pause this though cuz
[29:56] I don't want to put my camera.
[29:59] Well, I'll just move it down.
[30:04] here. So, there's a lot that goes on at
[30:06] the beach.
[30:17] Hello. Oh, I hope he's careful out
[30:19] there, you know, cuz it is high
[30:21] tide. Well, we can't worry about
[30:23] everybody, right? He can't do that. He's
[30:25] a sovereign being. That's his own
[30:27] choices.
[30:35] So, a lot of skipping stones on this
[30:39] beach. My shoulder's hurting too much
[30:41] for me to do it.
[30:46] But, man, it's really rushing in. I love
[30:49] that. That's my favorite when it does
[30:51] that. And then they have to run if
[30:52] you're tracing the waves, you know, cuz
[30:54] like, oh, I didn't expect that. The
[30:56] waves come in patterns, right? Well,
[30:58] yeah, but they're, you know, seven every
[31:00] seventh wave is the biggest wave. What?
[31:03] Are you sure? Count them. Swear to God.
[31:05] Are you sure? Surfer. Trust me, I was a
[31:07] server. You Well, I got to check on
[31:09] that. Okay. When you see servers sitting
[31:10] out, I need to confirm that. All right.
[31:12] When you see servers sitting out there
[31:13] on their boards, it's always wave goes
[31:15] over. Wave. Yes. The wave goes over.
[31:17] Wave goes over. All of a sudden, you're
[31:19] going to see them all get the board
[31:20] because they're counting the waves. No
[31:23] way. I I never even thought to count
[31:25] them. It has to do with the tide coming
[31:27] in. That's all it is. It has it's a tide
[31:31] pattern. No matter what time of year or
[31:33] time of day or doesn't matter all all
[31:35] day, all all year long. Oh my god. So
[31:38] there's just sacred geometry in that
[31:40] over here. You can actually see see that
[31:42] white water way out there. See the rocks
[31:44] showing right now? No rocks? No. Way out
[31:48] there. The furthest white water you can
[31:49] see out there. I don't way out there.
[31:52] All the white disappeared. There it is
[31:53] again. See the black
[31:56] I can see it in the camera. I can't see
[31:57] it in my with my eyes.
[32:00] [Music]
[32:02] Oh, I see it way out there. Yeah, way
[32:04] out there. That's a reef that goes Oh,
[32:06] okay. I see it now. Connects all the way
[32:08] on the beach where the white where the
[32:09] white water is, right? Okay. It's cuz
[32:11] it's literally a reef. Yeah. Yeah.
[32:14] See, when you're in Hawaii, you can
[32:16] actually swim out to the reefs and watch
[32:17] the big sharks swimming along on the
[32:19] other side of the reef. It's so cool.
[32:25] I can snorkel for hours. Do you know if
[32:27] I can walk down to that lighthouse? Not
[32:29] now, but No, I didn't. I'll check them
[32:32] out. Okay. Literally, this is the first
[32:33] time I've been on this beach. Okay. I
[32:36] drove on the highway. Yeah. I came to
[32:38] visit my friend. Uhhuh. So, that's all
[32:41] I've ever done. When I came here and I
[32:43] scouted it, I walked down that beach
[32:44] probably two or three miles. Yeah. And
[32:46] then came back and it was the sunniest,
[32:48] warmest day. It was perfect weather.
[32:50] Yeah. I defin you can go a distance but
[32:52] not too far because I mean I think you
[32:56] might be able to at least it looked like
[32:57] it on guy GPS. This will all end here
[32:59] just up there and straight down. There's
[33:01] no way you there. Yeah, over there it
[33:03] doesn't. And that I'd say the same thing
[33:05] down there cuz it's it gets real skinny
[33:06] at a certain spot but then it looked
[33:08] like you could get around it but I need
[33:10] to check low tide. Okay. Okay, that
[33:12] makes sense. Yeah, cuz if there's a lot
[33:15] of rock, it doesn't it never gets a sand
[33:17] beach or a negative tide, but that's
[33:20] only one time a year. Now, I know more
[33:22] than once. Well, you know, a couple
[33:23] times, but still the same time of year.
[33:25] December, January, that kind of thing. I
[33:27] understand that.
[33:29] Um, yeah, most people don't know that
[33:31] though. I get it. Thanks for telling me.
[33:33] Oh, yeah. They think there's only one
[33:34] king, but there is. Moon alignment.
[33:37] Yeah. Closest the moon is to alignment.
[33:41] Yeah. when you Oh, so that's a cool guy.
[33:45] Seagull.
[33:47] Yeah. Yeah. Literally look like a
[33:49] seagull.
[33:51] You know, I think about this ocean is
[33:53] the engine of the earth cuz it just
[33:56] Oh, you can't. Oh, there's pelicans out
[33:58] there. There's three of them. I know.
[34:01] Yeah, I see them. I see them. I love
[34:04] That's nice. I don't know. Let me try to
[34:06] zoom in. I don't know if I can.
[34:08] I think they just got his face.
[34:11] Yeah, I can't see him on my camera, but
[34:12] they might be on there sometimes. Oh, I
[34:14] zoomed in. It zoomed in. Yeah, they're
[34:16] staying real low to the water.
[34:22] Well, that storm front's moving this
[34:23] way, tell you. Yeah, it is. It's coming
[34:26] in. Oh, it's spreading, too. It just
[34:28] covered the whole sky. Yeah, it wasn't
[34:29] like that a couple minutes ago. I love
[34:32] that. God, I love that. Oh, okay. God, I
[34:34] love that. There's two layers. Look
[34:36] straight up. Look at the direction the
[34:38] clouds going that way. They're going at
[34:40] an angle now. Wait, you're right.
[34:45] Oh, I can barely look at that. That's
[34:46] why the clouds suddenly came over
[34:48] because it's they're not coming this
[34:49] way. Shifting that. It's amazing and all
[34:52] that.
[34:54] You don't really want to mess with that
[34:56] foam. It's a bacteria bacteria.
[35:00] It can't hurt. It doesn't really hurt
[35:02] you, but it kills fish. And it could
[35:05] make an animal very sick like a dog.
[35:08] People let their dogs just bite it cuz
[35:10] the dogs want to chase it.
[35:12] It is. And warmer time of the year when
[35:16] the water gets a little warmer. It gets
[35:18] it can get Well, you know, the ocean's a
[35:20] mix of everything. And I I already knew
[35:22] that. So I'm not It get about this thick
[35:25] and dark brown. It's Oh, yeah. And then
[35:28] big huge monster. Oh, that was so
[35:30] awesome. So awesome. So those little
[35:32] ones right there, just a vision. Wait a
[35:34] minute. I'm going to start counting.
[35:35] Maybe that was number seven. I haven't
[35:37] been paying attention. So I don't know
[35:40] how to count these. So they don't
[35:41] exactly come in as just one weight. You
[35:43] would you count all those little ones as
[35:45] one? Well, you have to you have to look
[35:47] a little beyond because when they get
[35:49] close, they're breaking out. Oh, yeah.
[35:50] Yeah. Okay. Just a little beyond is
[35:52] where you start counting. Awesome. I
[35:54] love this wisdom. Yeah. is what happen
[35:57] is that tide going out makes a wave form
[36:00] when it's not really an incoming wave.
[36:02] So yeah, it's the wind driven incoming
[36:04] tide and wind driven. So yeah, just a
[36:06] little further out there. Okay, makes
[36:08] sense.
[36:12] So what makes it cause these waves
[36:14] though like out there? Because there
[36:15] isn't these wse waves are too. Oh man,
[36:19] that's amazing. Most waves are caused by
[36:22] the wind. Okay. And even if it wasn't
[36:24] windy right now, if the waves are coming
[36:26] from something 300 miles away, currents,
[36:29] currents under the water, maybe. Well,
[36:31] currents will cause the waves to get a
[36:33] little bigger. Okay, but
[36:35] basically the two things that create the
[36:37] waves are wind and coming tides. Okay,
[36:43] you got water being pushed across the
[36:45] globe. Oh, that man walking way down
[36:46] there.
[36:48] He's like me and have that leather
[36:51] jacket.
[36:53] I mean, literally, these waves here were
[36:55] probably formed a thousand miles out to
[36:59] sea. That's what fascinates me about
[37:01] waves. They literally, and that's why I
[37:04] told you those glass balls from Japan
[37:07] are so coveted because, let's face it,
[37:08] they pull up on this beach, they shatter
[37:11] when they come up on the beach. So, to
[37:13] actually find them that make it to the
[37:15] our shore is hard to find. And it's only
[37:19] on the sandy beaches and only after a
[37:23] storm. And that's when all the what they
[37:25] call the beachers all head out right
[37:27] after a
[37:29] storm. I don't want to experience as
[37:31] much as why I came while I'm here, you
[37:33] know. But I'll still be like, you know,
[37:35] national forest, they're going to be I
[37:37] got to look them up. I don't know. Yeah,
[37:39] I assume you'll find on the Oregon
[37:42] coast. Not many inland. You'll find more
[37:45] of the national bars. I got to be near
[37:48] the ocean though. Yeah.
[37:52] Half of the new camp hosts today have
[37:54] never been to the beach. They've lived
[37:56] Wow. Really? In interior Oregon. They've
[37:58] never been They all live along the Le
[38:01] Pine and all those places in the high
[38:03] desert. Well, they're in for a treat.
[38:05] Oh, yeah. They were They just have That
[38:07] couple I was talking to telling where
[38:08] the laundry room was. Yeah. They came
[38:11] from
[38:12] um Lone Pine. I know. Line. Okay. I've
[38:16] heard of that one. Everybody seems to
[38:17] mention that one. High desert. It's
[38:19] beautiful. It's on the edge of desert
[38:21] plateau and mountains. Maybe I'll try to
[38:24] visit that one when I'm heading back to
[38:26] Kentucky if it can figure out if it's on
[38:28] the road. In the summer, it'll be a
[38:29] warmer time to be there, which is great.
[38:32] That's okay. I am, you know, I'm from a
[38:34] a climate that's very hot. Yeah, I have
[38:37] gotten used to not going to be humid
[38:39] like when it's hot. That's what's nice.
[38:42] It is a dry air.
[38:44] So, we're definitely getting close to
[38:45] high tide. Maybe another 30 minutes.
[38:47] Lady just got a She was sitting flying
[38:51] the kite. She didn't expect that. Okay.
[38:55] Well, do the ocean just said hello to
[38:56] you.
[39:01] Look at those bright orange shoes. I
[39:04] know. They look like those things you
[39:05] wear. Gloss or what do they call those
[39:07] things? Slip on things. You were wearing
[39:10] black ones. Oh, I'm like, what are you
[39:13] talking about? Mine I definitely don't
[39:14] have any. Yeah. Crocs. Crocs.
[39:18] Crocs. Crocs. Yeah. Those are just so I
[39:21] can get in and out of my RV without
[39:22] having to
[39:24] cuz my floor is always dirty cuz I don't
[39:26] take my shoes off.
[39:29] That's why I take my shoes off. I know.
[39:31] I wish I did. Like I keep trying to
[39:33] convince myself. Every home I've ever
[39:35] had, I've done that. Shifting. If it's
[39:37] cold floor, I shift into those slippers.
[39:39] And you let me walk into your place
[39:40] without doing that. I told you that I
[39:42] would take my shoes off. Now I'm going
[39:44] to That's your choice. I'm going to
[39:47] Don't force people to do that kind of
[39:48] stuff. I'm sorry. I I asked and you were
[39:50] like, "It's okay. Just walk on." Okay.
[39:52] Well, now I know. I didn't know till
[39:55] now. Now I know. Growing up, we live,
[39:58] you know, had a community where some of
[40:00] the places we lived in Orange
[40:02] County. I'm just going to turn this.
[40:05] There were several Japanese families and
[40:06] they all took the shoes off. So my
[40:08] parents got in the habit of doing it
[40:09] because we were four kids. They kept the
[40:11] house clean. Yeah. Okay. He's not coming
[40:14] over again. And I as soon as I get home,
[40:17] my shoes come off. If it's warmer, my
[40:19] socks, everything comes
[40:21] off. This time of year, I just put my
[40:24] slippers
[40:27] on. Yeah. Look at that. I like the
[40:31] seagull. It looks nice. It does look
[40:34] like a seagull. Wow.
[40:36] Where is it? Wonder how many seagulls
[40:39] have come running come flying over to
[40:43] it. Really
[40:45] cool. Where is There it is. It looks
[40:49] just like one. Well, your first glance
[40:50] you sele
[40:54] Okay, I got it on camera. A lot of rain
[40:57] out there. Look, you can see it. Oh,
[40:58] yeah. I love that. Rain there. And you
[41:00] mentioned that to me. That's how I
[41:01] learned that's what that is. I didn't
[41:03] know that. It's over here. Um
[41:07] You know, I didn't know that's what that
[41:09] was. I do now. So, you that's comes
[41:13] that's part of learning when you're
[41:15] sailing. You learn what to avoid if you
[41:18] know what's coming.
[41:20] Yeah. That would tell you right there.
[41:21] It's a heavy downpour and dark as that
[41:24] is. How far would you say I were able to
[41:26] see like in miles?
[41:29] Uh horizon's probably a good 20 30 miles
[41:32] out there. Maybe 40. It's hard to tell
[41:35] from here. I'd say probably.
[41:38] Man, I love this ocean. 30 to 40 m.
[41:46] What's really cool is if you get a
[41:48] lightning storm, but we don't get those
[41:50] until summer. Yeah, I haven't seen
[41:52] anything like that. Out on the water.
[41:53] Oh, so cool. Oh my god, I would love
[41:56] that. Yeah, so cool.
[41:59] I thought I was chasing storms this
[42:01] winter, but that sounds way better. Go
[42:04] to Florida in the summer. go nuts. Yeah,
[42:07] I don't like Florida. Yeah, I want to be
[42:09] here. Also, it's the wrong ocean.
[42:12] Technically, it's the same ocean, but um
[42:14] it's different. Yeah, technically it is
[42:16] the same ocean. We only have one ocean.
[42:18] No. Yes, it's one body of water. This is
[42:21] the Pacific Ocean. I know. That's what
[42:22] they tell us. The Atlantic. Yeah, but
[42:24] it's the same ocean. There's no dividing
[42:26] line. There's no true dividing line.
[42:28] Curves to keep the water separate. It's
[42:30] the same water though. Water. It's one
[42:32] body of water. We can disagree on this
[42:34] one. It's okay. The Earth is covered
[42:37] with water, but the reason there's
[42:39] different ocean names is because there's
[42:42] currents that keep the water in. Well,
[42:44] historical
[42:46] reasons. Um, but it's okay. We can
[42:48] disagree on this one. It's called
[42:49] physics. Okay. I don't agree with this.
[42:51] It's okay, though.
[42:58] It's really getting beautiful the way
[43:00] the water's starting to come off the
[43:02] sand.
[43:14] You know what? And the 101's right
[43:16] behind
[43:19] us. The 101's right behind us. Just, you
[43:23] know, carving the coast, hugging the
[43:26] coast.
[43:32] Don't get mad. My foot's No, my foot.
[43:35] Okay. You just got so quiet after that.
[43:37] It's like I just view it differently,
[43:38] you know? Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. You
[43:41] feeling okay? It's
[43:44] We can go whenever you want to. Okay.
[43:46] Not happy, right? But look how big it is
[43:47] compared to this one. Oh, yeah. I can
[43:49] tell. You're right. It's really swollen
[43:51] up. Well, it's happening. It's cutting
[43:53] off my circulation. My leg's going numb.
[43:56] I won't have a choice but to leave it
[43:58] pretty soon. Okay. Yeah, cuz you know
[44:00] it's high tide. There's, you know, Oh,
[44:02] it's coming in. It's going to be wobbly.
[44:05] So, I can It's going to take hours
[44:07] before I can come out here. So, I'm
[44:09] definitely going to do that today. As
[44:11] long as it don't start raining. Yeah.
[44:12] Well, now you know that don't cross that
[44:16] bridge. Stay on the other side of that
[44:17] bridge. Yeah. Don't follow.
[44:20] Well, that's too short of a path,
[44:22] though. I want to be over here. No, you
[44:24] that piece goes quite goes around. Yeah,
[44:26] but not far enough for me.
[44:29] I want to go that way. I want to go see
[44:30] if I can get to the lighthouse.
[44:33] Yeah, it's a low tide. You should be
[44:34] able to get quite a ways to see how far
[44:36] down he is. Man, he really did go down
[44:38] there. I like this
[44:41] man. But I don't know. There's somebody
[44:43] next to him, so I don't know if it's the
[44:45] same person. I don't see another person.
[44:48] I'm almost sure of it. It's only one
[44:50] person. It's still him.
[44:53] Hold on. You know what? You're right.
[44:56] Why am I seeing double? Why the [ __ ] am
[44:57] I seeing double?
[45:00] My left eye was showing double. Oh my
[45:02] god.
[45:05] Yeah, that's one person. All right. Oh
[45:06] my god. It might be my contact. Well,
[45:09] I'm not wearing contacts. Oh, okay.
[45:11] That's weird.
[45:13] Holy crap. If I just look through my
[45:15] left eye, I see a second person there.
[45:18] Wow. It's like a shadow. Yeah. We were
[45:20] lucky. Our family genetically was
[45:22] blessed with perfect eyesight. That is
[45:24] wild.
[45:27] Wow. Oh my god. That is wild.
[45:31] I have 100% depth per reception. And I
[45:35] can shoot I can shoot uh Oh yeah. You
[45:38] know squirrel at 300 yards. Yeah. You
[45:40] know, only one eye does that does depth
[45:42] perception. I don't remember which one,
[45:43] but I learned this because of a a
[45:45] journalist who lost one of her eyes and
[45:46] she lost that ability. So, I don't know.
[45:49] Maybe that's a, you know, maybe that's
[45:51] why one of my eyes can see it and one
[45:53] can't.
[45:57] No, any time I was learning to shoot a
[46:00] rifle when I was very young. I get too
[46:03] on the voice guns. I can I can shoot
[46:06] just anything I aim at. It may take me
[46:09] two shots because I have to adjust for
[46:11] distance and wind. I could have been a
[46:13] sniper. Listen to you. It's the only
[46:16] thing my dad I say he was proud of, but
[46:19] he never told me he was proud of me. He
[46:22] was he raged his when he was a cop for a
[46:26] while every you know we'd go to the
[46:28] shooting range they have to practice so
[46:32] they brought their sons along and then
[46:35] we had to compete with each other and I
[46:37] beat everybody I could be I could shoot
[46:40] a clay pigeon every time and then no how
[46:44] far back you put me I could shoot a
[46:46] target dead on that's the only got a
[46:49] helicopter Yep.
[46:54] So, what are they doing?
[47:02] You think they can see us clearly? Yeah.
[47:04] Can they see me recording
[47:07] now? Seems to find a bit.
[47:12] Cool,
[47:13] man. I like the cars. Usually, you know
[47:17] that one movie? I think it's one of my
[47:18] favorite movies where um is it I can't
[47:21] remember what actor it is. Might be
[47:22] Robert Patson, but he goes out to um out
[47:25] to sea to try to save some a boat oil
[47:27] tanker and he has to go past a um you
[47:32] told me about these things. It's really
[47:33] dangerous. Yeah. One of the bars. Oh,
[47:35] that's Hatter's bar
[47:38] probably moving. Yeah, there's a big bar
[47:41] out. And then there's a point where um
[47:44] they're trying to get back and there's
[47:45] no light so all the cars line up and
[47:47] they just put their headlights on. It's
[47:49] a true story. Yeah, it's a really good
[47:52] story. I can't remember the name of it.
[47:54] It's not that old. It's only like maybe
[47:55] 10 years old. Y can be pretty scary at
[47:57] night, but I used to do it. I had a
[47:59] small little The finest hours. Yeah,
[48:02] that little SBO you saw me a picture
[48:04] where I was sitting my legs just stretch
[48:06] out. That little tiny SO. I used to go
[48:08] out to sea in that thing with a friend.
[48:10] We go all the way up to Malibu and turn
[48:12] around, come back, and we spend about an
[48:14] hour to two hours in the total dark.
[48:17] Just flashlights.
[48:21] You know, I don't normally just sit here
[48:22] and watch the ocean. Yeah, I know. You
[48:23] never sit still in the sun. Never. It is
[48:26] a different experience.
[48:29] Well, it's engaging your brain, so
[48:31] you're still getting the same benefit.
[48:33] There's still movement. It's called AR
[48:35] would call it movements.
[48:37] Um, but yeah, I don't just sit here.
[48:40] This is But yeah, I'm just saying that
[48:42] because everybody else sits down
[48:43] watching the ocean and when I did that,
[48:45] I was like so bored. So bored. It wasn't
[48:48] until I started tracing the waves that I
[48:50] caught
[48:51] m. But you know, it's nice when you have
[48:53] a friend with you. I look out there, all
[48:56] of a sudden it's almost flat. Okay, so
[48:58] the next big wave count is number one.
[49:01] Okay, I'm going to count them. So that's
[49:04] number one out there. It's just forming
[49:07] and starting to break way up there. That
[49:09] would be number one.
[49:12] That's a lot of counting. Yeah, it it
[49:14] takes a lot of concentration. It really
[49:16] does. Really pay attention to the waves.
[49:24] Not sure if you ask AI, is it true every
[49:30] now? weather AI tells you. I grew up
[49:32] surfing. Yeah. I don't care what your AI
[49:35] tells you, but I'm sure it's smart
[49:36] enough to know that.
[49:39] Surfers don't know it. Yeah. And that's
[49:41] cuz we were on the water literally all
[49:43] day long. I think it's coming back.
[49:48] You're going to get caught in high tide,
[49:49] man. No, but I literally spend all day
[49:53] at the beach. Yeah. either out on the
[49:56] surfboard surfing or coming in sitting
[49:58] on the beach for a little bit, rest,
[50:01] have lunch, go back
[50:05] out. It's the start of life on our
[50:09] It's a wonderful light. Yep. Before
[50:11] before someone came out with these those
[50:14] hooks that you put on your bike.
[50:15] Initially, we had we carried our
[50:17] surfboard in our arm.
[50:19] I don't know how we used to do that cuz
[50:21] our boards were bigger back then
[50:24] and we didn't wear wet suits. Those
[50:26] didn't start wet suits didn't really
[50:28] start until the
[50:31] 70s. We can have back in a lot. Yeah.
[50:34] Okay.
[50:37] Oh, my thigh hurts for some reason. I
[50:39] don't know why. Wait till you get up.
[50:42] If you need to use me for support, I'm
[50:44] right here.
[50:52] Yes, me and my
7:27
Filming Eel Lake While Processing OPRD Detachment
Mar 27, 2025
6:43
Naming the Dismissal Timing, Routing East to Kentucky
Mar 27, 2025
6:20
Reading OPRD Letter Into the Public Record
Mar 28, 2025
Photos · Mar 28, 2025
Mar 28, 2025
38:45
Touring Winchester Bay and Umpqua Coast with John
Mar 29, 2025
10:27
Continuing North After Volunteer Program Dismissal
Mar 29, 2025
9:32
Recording a Trail Walk After Two Non-Encounters
Mar 30, 2025
15:04
Laundry Run to Reedsport, Teaching Through Witness
Mar 30, 2025
Photos · Mar 31, 2025
Mar 31, 2025
5:00
Moving from Tugman to Beverly Beach in Rain
Mar 31, 2025
Photos · Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025
Photos · Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025
50:54
Touring a New Campground and Walking the Beach with John
Apr 2, 2025
1:26
Declaring Openness as Structural Strength
Apr 2, 2025
8:29
Documenting Relocation Logistics and Signal Flares
Apr 2, 2025
4:49
Requesting Support Before Off-Grid Transition
Apr 3, 2025
4:26
Returning to Florence for Off-Grid Iteration
Apr 3, 2025
13:00
Cataloging Systems Before Disconnecting RV Power
Apr 3, 2025
11:13
Announcing Off-Grid Transition and Support Structure
Apr 3, 2025
2:26
Announcing Off-Grid Sovereignty and Support Channels
Apr 3, 2025
8:57
Cutting Hair at Camp With Don
Apr 4, 2025
6:02
Addressing Audience Directly on Reciprocity
Apr 4, 2025
13:36
Moving Off Grid on Departure Morning
Apr 4, 2025
Photos · Apr 4, 2025
Apr 4, 2025
24:00
Departing Beverly Beach for Off-Grid Campground
Apr 4, 2025
29:59
Relocating to Off-Grid Site at Lagoon Campground
Apr 4, 2025
Photos · Apr 5, 2025
Apr 5, 2025
15:33
Switching to Portrait Mode, Mapping Off-Grid Systems
Apr 5, 2025
23:46
Exploring Siltcoos Trails to the Ocean
Apr 5, 2025
8:07
Marking One Year in the RV Off-Grid
Apr 5, 2025
Photos · Apr 6, 2025
Apr 6, 2025
Photos · Apr 6, 2025
Apr 6, 2025
12:33
Mapping Battery Systems, Booking Fees, and Witness Standards
Apr 6, 2025
7:52
Scouting Laundromat and Outlining Support Architecture
Apr 6, 2025
18:10
Making Coffee Off-Grid Using Jeep Inverter Power
Apr 6, 2025
10:01
Extending the Awning in Rain, Addressing Projection
Apr 6, 2025
Photos · Apr 7, 2025
Apr 7, 2025
3:00
Declaring Sovereign Terms of Transmission
Apr 7, 2025
3:08
Declining to Perform After Conditional Donation
Apr 7, 2025
50:48
Running Systems Test Day Across Florence and Siltcoos
Apr 7, 2025
37:57
Establishing Off-Grid Power at Siltcoos
Apr 7, 2025
PUBLIC
April 2, 2025 rswfire PUBLISHED
Temp 0.10
Density 0.60
Energetic Quality
buoyant and mobile, with a sharp mid-signal recalibration
Journey Phase
transitional — reintegrating campground infrastructure after full-hookup volunteer conditions
Directional Vector
toward direct oceanic contact and self-directed movement, away from static observation
Narrative

The morning began inside John's rig, in a space rswfire had never entered before. He noticed the details the way he notices everything — the artificial plants that looked convincing enough to ask about, the interior lights that turned on when he tried them, the acrylic covers that ran the full perimeter of the RV including the doors, unused but included. John joked that rswfire could never sit still. It was the kind of joke that only lands between people who have already done the work of knowing each other. Standing there, rswfire said aloud what he valued most about the man: John had misunderstood him at first, then figured him out, and never once tried to change him after that. He witnessed instead. That was the whole architecture of the friendship, stated in a single breath, and the rest of the day would run on it.

The plan was simple — John would sit on the beach and rest while rswfire walked down the shoreline tracing the waves. He detoured to his RV for a pop, then found the shower house and stopped to assess it. Individual stalls, which mattered. He named the reason directly: as a gay man he has never felt safe in shared shower facilities, and Oregon State Parks had been upgrading their infrastructure toward the kind that works. Months of full hookups as a volunteer had let him shower in his own rig; now he would have to reintegrate the whole routine — the walk down, the moisturizers, the care of the skin around his eyes. He noted the loss of convenience without complaint, and added, as he always does, that he is still beautiful. Later, when John apologized for a distraction pulling at the day, rswfire told him he could hold both realities. John said he figured he could.

They walked the loop toward the beach, and the campground unspooled as a catalog of systems. The awning needed silicone spray, the more expensive kind that was supposedly better. The site was new — storm damage the previous year had shut the park down, and the rebuild showed a real effort to keep volunteers comfortable. They passed rigs and read them like specifications: the compact hybrid trailer with the V-shaped dinette that drops into a queen bed, solid acrylic instead of canvas so a door could actually lock in a remote spot, small enough for a Jeep to pull, roughly fifteen thousand and worth it. The truck camper that rose almost two stories when deployed but sat low against the wind when down. The commercial-grade vents rswfire had puzzled over. The ice machines, the map racks, the recycling stations sorted every way except propane — which led to Randy, and county ordinances, and the realization that compressed canisters may have been going into the trash all along. He noticed the rangers and volunteers waving, and wondered whether they had seen his videos, what they made of him. He decided to be himself and let people form their own opinions. He tilted the camera away from other campers as they passed.

They crossed at the bridge — the one whose single unlined arc of cement now appears on the park's new signage, its own signature — and came out where the river meets the ocean. Making love to each other, John called it. Melting together, rswfire agreed. And then the ground told him something was wrong. Too rocky. The ocean sitting too far in, closer than it had been the day before. He stopped, checked the app, and confirmed it: near high tide, still rising, hours before the beach he had planned to walk would exist. I can't trace the waves like this. He named the miscalculation as his own — he never checks the app — and let the disappointment land fully, out loud, without softening it. Then he held the plan open. He would come back later. He might still walk down as far as the narrow stretch allowed. The plan was deferred, not collapsed.

What followed was not the walk he came for, so it became something else: hours of transmission, standing at the edge of a rising tide with a man who grew up on the water. John explained the reef offshore that made the far waves rear up and break. He explained king tides and negative tides as one phenomenon, the moon's alignment pulling the water to both extremes at once — a thing rswfire had seen but not connected. He explained riptides, the steeper beach and the stronger outbound pull, how to swim sideways and feel the curve release you. He explained that most waves are born of wind a thousand miles out, and the glass floats from Japan that only survive on sandy shores after a storm. He warned against the foam — bacteria, harmless enough to a person, lethal to fish, dangerous to a dog chasing it. And he told rswfire that every seventh wave is the biggest, that surfers sit on their boards counting, that when you see them all suddenly move it's because the count came due. rswfire pushed back, asked him twice if he was sure, said he'd have to confirm it — and then his mind lit up on it: sacred geometry, in that. He began counting. The next big one would be number one.

Between the lessons the beach kept handing them things. A rock full of broken seashells, millions of years old, calcium still in them, never to petrify because it had broken free before the pressure could finish the work. Kids playing with crates, which rswfire turns into rainbows — and John, who lived in Hawaii, where the rainbow is a state symbol printed on everything. Pelicans flying low. A stone shaped so exactly like a seagull that they both had to look twice. A woman flying a kite who got greeted by the ocean. A helicopter overhead, and rswfire wondering if it could see him recording. Columns of rain hanging thirty or forty miles offshore, and then a storm front that spread across the entire sky in the space of a few minutes, two cloud layers moving at different angles, which he loved and said so, repeatedly, looking straight up.

There were the disagreements, and neither of them needed one. John held that the oceans are separated by currents, by physics, by names that mean something. rswfire held that there is one body of water on this earth with no true dividing line. We can disagree on this one, he said, twice, and left it standing. A man walked out toward the surf far down the beach, close to the water at high tide, and John worried aloud. rswfire declined the worry — the man is a sovereign being, that's his own choices. And when rswfire counted the figure as two people and John insisted it was one, he closed his right eye and found the second man was a shadow cast by his own left eye. He said holy crap, said that is wild, and moved on. His shoulder hurt too much to skip stones. His thigh hurt for no reason he could name. John's leg had swollen enough to cut circulation and would force them off the beach soon.

They stayed until the tide made the decision for them. rswfire had already worked out the rest: hours yet before he could walk it, but he would come back today if the rain held off, past the bridge, down the narrowing sand, as far toward the lighthouse as low water would let him go. He noted, standing there beside John with Highway 101 hugging the coast behind them, that he never just sits and watches the ocean — that he'd tried it once and been bored out of his mind, and that it only opened for him when he started tracing the waves. But this was different. It was still movement. And it was nice, he said, when you have a friend with you.

Tags

campground tour coastal walk friendship RV and trailer research ocean knowledge transfer tide timing volunteer transition

Summary

rswfire records a day at a new coastal campground with his friend John, moving from John's RV interior through the campground infrastructure and out to the beach.

He tours John's rig (acrylic covers, lights), notes the shower house and states he will reintegrate showering at shared facilities after months of full hookups as a volunteer — specifying that he prefers individual showers, describing that as a gay man he has never felt safe in shared facilities. He describes his skincare routine and states he is still beautiful.

He describes John directly: a friend who never tried to change him and instead witnessed him. He recounts telling John he can hold both realities when John apologized for enjoying a day rswfire missed.

Walking the campground, they inspect trailers — a compact hybrid pop-up (acrylic, ~$15,000) rswfire suggests John could buy after selling his motorhome — plus recycling stations, an ice machine, and a bridge featured on the park's new signage. He notes new volunteers arriving and wonders whether rangers recognize him from his videos.

At the beach, the tide is near high, making wave tracing impossible; he states he came at the wrong time and plans to return later. John transmits ocean knowledge: reefs, riptides, king and negative tides, the seventh-wave pattern, sea foam bacteria, wave formation. They disagree over whether the oceans are one body of water and both let it stand. rswfire notices doubled vision in his left eye. John recounts surfing history and night runs to Malibu.

Environment

A coastal Oregon State Parks campground on the Oregon Coast, recorded on foot and handheld. The signal opens inside a friend's RV (John's rig, acrylic covers, interior lights), moves through the campground loop past the shower house, ice machines, recycling stations, a day-use area and a signature bridge that appears on the park's new signage, and past parked rigs including compact hybrid trailers and truck campers.

It then crosses to the beach where a river meets the ocean, near a reef, a lighthouse visible down-coast, and Highway 101 running behind the dunes. Conditions are near high tide with a storm front spreading overhead; rain columns are visible offshore. Other campers, volunteers, a kite flyer, and a helicopter pass through frame.

Substrate

The architecture held here is companionship without correction — rswfire states plainly that John witnessed him and never tried to change him, and the entire walk operates on that premise: two systems moving at declared pace, exchanging knowledge without either converting the other. A second load-bearing structure is the tide itself: rswfire arrives to trace the waves, finds high tide has closed that channel, names the miscalculation as his own, and holds the plan open rather than collapsing it. Sovereignty is stated explicitly and extended outward — a stranger walking near the surf is 'a sovereign being, that's his own choices' — and disagreement over whether the ocean is one body or many is left standing rather than resolved.

Actions

Performed

  • •touring John's RV interior
  • •recording continuously for memory-keeping
  • •stating what he values in John's friendship
  • •locating the shower house
  • •walking the campground loop
  • •carrying trash on the way out
  • •tilting the camera away from other campers
  • •greeting rangers, volunteers, and passing campers
  • •identifying compact trailers and truck campers
  • •examining a shell-embedded rock
  • •checking the tide app
  • •naming the timing miscalculation as his own
  • •counting waves after learning the seventh-wave pattern
  • •observing pelicans, a seagull-shaped driftwood form, and offshore rain
  • •noticing double vision in his left eye
  • •declining to resolve the one-ocean disagreement
  • •offering physical support to John getting up

Referenced

  • •showering in the RV for months on full hookups as a volunteer
  • •scouting this beach on a prior sunny day and walking two to three miles
  • •seeing an Alto-style hybrid trailer owned by a lesbian couple at Tugman
  • •photographing waves shooting over normally submerged rocks at negative tide
  • •learning about county propane-canister ordinances from Randy
  • •being flirted with by a man at Harris Beach
  • •turning crates into rainbows as a kid
  • •weighing 130 lbs and being described as a twink
  • •John surfing daily in Southern California before wetsuits
  • •John taking three cruises and watching the Milky Way from deck
  • •John's father bringing sons to the police shooting range to compete

Planned

  • •showering at the shower house and reintegrating a full self-care routine
  • •buying silicone spray for the awning
  • •returning to the beach hours later at lower tide to trace the waves
  • •walking down toward the lighthouse at low tide
  • •verifying the seventh-wave claim
  • •looking up the Alto trailer online
  • •possibly visiting the high desert near Lone Pine en route to Kentucky
  • •taking a ten-day Princess cruise to Hawaii with John if income returns
  • •returning to this campground in future

Entities

beings
John — Friend and fellow camp host walking the campground and beach with rswfire; rswfire states John witnessed him without trying to change him
Randy — Source of information about county propane-canister ordinances
places
Highway 101 — Coastal highway running directly behind the beach, described as hugging the coast
Tugman — Prior park where rswfire first saw the compact hybrid trailer
Harris Beach — Park in Brookings recalled as the site of a remembered flirtation
Lone Pine — High desert origin of new camp hosts; possible stop en route to Kentucky
Kentucky — Stated future travel destination
Hawaii — Cruise destination discussed; referenced for reef snorkeling and rainbow as state symbol
systems
Oregon State Parks — Operating agency of the campground; recycling practices, volunteer sites, and infrastructure upgrades discussed
Princess Cruises — Operator of the ten-day San Pedro-to-Hawaii cruise discussed as a future plan
concepts
king tide / negative tide — Tidal extremes tied to moon alignment; frame for what the beach reveals and conceals
tracing the waves — rswfire's named method of engaging the ocean through movement rather than stillness
sovereign being — Term rswfire applies to a stranger near the surf, declining to intervene in another's choices
media
Alto — Compact acrylic hybrid pop-up trailer rswfire recommends to John, approx. $15,000
The Finest Hours — Film recalled during discussion of dangerous river bars and headlight rescue

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

ocean
tide
threshold
reef
bridge
river mouth
lighthouse
storm front
shell in stone
rainbow
seventh wave
shower house
double vision
seagull
driftwood

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (extended outward — a stranger's risk near high tide is named as his own choice, not a call to intervene)
witnessed (rswfire states John figured him out and never tried to change him; friendship structured on non-correction)
transitional (reintegrating shower-house routine and campground logistics after months of full hookups)
embedded (moving inside a park system as volunteer while also being recognized by rangers and volunteers who may have seen his videos)
recalibrating (arrival at high tide closes the planned wave-tracing; the plan is deferred, not abandoned)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

relational (friendship defined by witnessing without correction; disagreement held open)
somatic (shoulder pain blocking stone-skipping, thigh discomfort, left-eye double vision, moisturizing routine)
infrastructural (shower houses, ice machines, recycling, awning silicone, trailer and rig specifications)
ecological (tide mechanics, riptides, reefs, wave formation, sea foam bacteria, fossil-bearing rock)
cognitive (pattern recognition in intersecting waves, wave counting, sacred geometry framing)
sexual/identity (stated safety calculus around shared shower facilities as a gay man; rainbow, twink, past flirtation)
institutional (Oregon State Parks volunteer management, new ranger turnover, county ordinances)
documentary (continuous recording, camera tilted away from other campers, awareness of being recognized from videos)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

tracing the waves
high tide / negative tide / king tide
sovereign being
he never tried to change me
reintegrate
every day is a good day
I can hold both realities
Narrative

The morning began inside John's rig, in a space rswfire had never entered before. He noticed the details the way he notices everything — the artificial plants that looked convincing enough to ask about, the interior lights that turned on when he tried them, the acrylic covers that ran the full perimeter of the RV including the doors, unused but included. John joked that rswfire could never sit still. It was the kind of joke that only lands between people who have already done the work of knowing each other. Standing there, rswfire said aloud what he valued most about the man: John had misunderstood him at first, then figured him out, and never once tried to change him after that. He witnessed instead. That was the whole architecture of the friendship, stated in a single breath, and the rest of the day would run on it.

The plan was simple — John would sit on the beach and rest while rswfire walked down the shoreline tracing the waves. He detoured to his RV for a pop, then found the shower house and stopped to assess it. Individual stalls, which mattered. He named the reason directly: as a gay man he has never felt safe in shared shower facilities, and Oregon State Parks had been upgrading their infrastructure toward the kind that works. Months of full hookups as a volunteer had let him shower in his own rig; now he would have to reintegrate the whole routine — the walk down, the moisturizers, the care of the skin around his eyes. He noted the loss of convenience without complaint, and added, as he always does, that he is still beautiful. Later, when John apologized for a distraction pulling at the day, rswfire told him he could hold both realities. John said he figured he could.

They walked the loop toward the beach, and the campground unspooled as a catalog of systems. The awning needed silicone spray, the more expensive kind that was supposedly better. The site was new — storm damage the previous year had shut the park down, and the rebuild showed a real effort to keep volunteers comfortable. They passed rigs and read them like specifications: the compact hybrid trailer with the V-shaped dinette that drops into a queen bed, solid acrylic instead of canvas so a door could actually lock in a remote spot, small enough for a Jeep to pull, roughly fifteen thousand and worth it. The truck camper that rose almost two stories when deployed but sat low against the wind when down. The commercial-grade vents rswfire had puzzled over. The ice machines, the map racks, the recycling stations sorted every way except propane — which led to Randy, and county ordinances, and the realization that compressed canisters may have been going into the trash all along. He noticed the rangers and volunteers waving, and wondered whether they had seen his videos, what they made of him. He decided to be himself and let people form their own opinions. He tilted the camera away from other campers as they passed.

They crossed at the bridge — the one whose single unlined arc of cement now appears on the park's new signage, its own signature — and came out where the river meets the ocean. Making love to each other, John called it. Melting together, rswfire agreed. And then the ground told him something was wrong. Too rocky. The ocean sitting too far in, closer than it had been the day before. He stopped, checked the app, and confirmed it: near high tide, still rising, hours before the beach he had planned to walk would exist. I can't trace the waves like this. He named the miscalculation as his own — he never checks the app — and let the disappointment land fully, out loud, without softening it. Then he held the plan open. He would come back later. He might still walk down as far as the narrow stretch allowed. The plan was deferred, not collapsed.

What followed was not the walk he came for, so it became something else: hours of transmission, standing at the edge of a rising tide with a man who grew up on the water. John explained the reef offshore that made the far waves rear up and break. He explained king tides and negative tides as one phenomenon, the moon's alignment pulling the water to both extremes at once — a thing rswfire had seen but not connected. He explained riptides, the steeper beach and the stronger outbound pull, how to swim sideways and feel the curve release you. He explained that most waves are born of wind a thousand miles out, and the glass floats from Japan that only survive on sandy shores after a storm. He warned against the foam — bacteria, harmless enough to a person, lethal to fish, dangerous to a dog chasing it. And he told rswfire that every seventh wave is the biggest, that surfers sit on their boards counting, that when you see them all suddenly move it's because the count came due. rswfire pushed back, asked him twice if he was sure, said he'd have to confirm it — and then his mind lit up on it: sacred geometry, in that. He began counting. The next big one would be number one.

Between the lessons the beach kept handing them things. A rock full of broken seashells, millions of years old, calcium still in them, never to petrify because it had broken free before the pressure could finish the work. Kids playing with crates, which rswfire turns into rainbows — and John, who lived in Hawaii, where the rainbow is a state symbol printed on everything. Pelicans flying low. A stone shaped so exactly like a seagull that they both had to look twice. A woman flying a kite who got greeted by the ocean. A helicopter overhead, and rswfire wondering if it could see him recording. Columns of rain hanging thirty or forty miles offshore, and then a storm front that spread across the entire sky in the space of a few minutes, two cloud layers moving at different angles, which he loved and said so, repeatedly, looking straight up.

There were the disagreements, and neither of them needed one. John held that the oceans are separated by currents, by physics, by names that mean something. rswfire held that there is one body of water on this earth with no true dividing line. We can disagree on this one, he said, twice, and left it standing. A man walked out toward the surf far down the beach, close to the water at high tide, and John worried aloud. rswfire declined the worry — the man is a sovereign being, that's his own choices. And when rswfire counted the figure as two people and John insisted it was one, he closed his right eye and found the second man was a shadow cast by his own left eye. He said holy crap, said that is wild, and moved on. His shoulder hurt too much to skip stones. His thigh hurt for no reason he could name. John's leg had swollen enough to cut circulation and would force them off the beach soon.

They stayed until the tide made the decision for them. rswfire had already worked out the rest: hours yet before he could walk it, but he would come back today if the rain held off, past the bridge, down the narrowing sand, as far toward the lighthouse as low water would let him go. He noted, standing there beside John with Highway 101 hugging the coast behind them, that he never just sits and watches the ocean — that he'd tried it once and been bored out of his mind, and that it only opened for him when he started tracing the waves. But this was different. It was still movement. And it was nice, he said, when you have a friend with you.

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