Beware the winter surf!! (Monterey, Eureka: middle school, camping, live)

[eureka1]

Our community is still reeling from the loss of a wonderful family who foolishly followed their dog into the surf . Mother, father and 16 year old boy are dead leaving their 18 year old daughter. This has been on CNN. The dog, of course, survived. Every year we lose people who go in the water unwisely or turn their backs on the surf. STAY OUT OF THE BIG WAVES! And live to have a happy Christmas.

[1200RT]

Heard about this on the radio. Awful story.

[.highnlite]

Pretty sad, here we lost a child playing on the rocks while the family camped. The surf is far more dangerous than people realize..

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Wow, that totally sucks. We lose a tourist about every year to rips.

[Snort]

Eureka, were they tossing a stick into the water so the dog would go after it?
That's what I gleaned from reading one of the sources online.
At any rate, I have seen people do this when the surf was dangerous and the dog barely made it out alive.
Whatever happened here, it's a damned sad story. I hope the surviving child receives solace from somewhere. Just frickin' awful.

[Bulldogdad]

Yup, those sleeper waves kill people every year along the California coast. It's not just during Winter either. It can happen any time of the year. Learned about them back in the 1970's when our family started camping out for vacation at Bodega and Tomales Bay.

[Gentoo]

Makes the heart ache hearing about this.

[.highnlite]

I was in middle school I think, my good friend Larry and I were bicycling through Shell Beach, at some point we went out to the cliffs and climbed down to a bowl shaped depression in the tuff, about 20 feet above the ocean, we watched the waves crashing in far below, and then...... Came one of those rogues, it soaked us, 20 feet above the ocean, we were darned lucky not to get pulled off the rock.

[Hawk J]

This is such a terrible tragedy.

I remember when i was in Monterey high school, more then once some folks got too far out on the rocks at Lovers Point, New Monterey. Some payed dearly with their lives, washed right off the rocks.

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by .highnlite

I was in middle school I think, my good friend Larry and I were bicycling through Shell Beach, at some point we went out to the cliffs and climbed down to a bowl shaped depression in the tuff, about 20 feet above the ocean, we watched the waves crashing in far below, and then...... Came one of those rogues, it soaked us, 20 feet above the ocean, we were darned lucky not to get pulled off the rock.

Norcal Shell beach or the one in your area.