This is not the great white shark, estimated at 18 feet long, that recently ate a seal in half in Ocean Shores. Wait, I guess, technically, it’s not the shark that left half a seal. So, I guess, shark-worry wise, I’m a seal-half-left kind of surfer. Optimistic minded. After all, I’ve never seen a shark bigger than the one I saw in the clear water at Swamis- small, or the one I’m sure I saw in the late evening chop at San Onofre. I yelled ‘shark,’ but my friends, one peak over, didn’t believe me, it didn’t seem to be there when I looked back, so I kept surfing.
Oh, but does one actually see the shark that takes him? Like a bullet in the old war movies; as if one sees bullets anyway.
Anyway, my friend Stephen Davis did see one in Oregon last fall. And, Adam James is pretty darn sure he saw a shark, possibly the very half-seal-leaving monster several weeks ago when he and Clint, fresh from surfing Demon Point (yeah, I know it’s Damon- or is it?), and checking out the jetty, were sure something that wasn’t a surfer flashing across a double-overhead wave, second in a set of three, may have been… suspense… possibly, a shark, the very self-same great white predator of the deep (and, the scarier part, shallow).
But it’s not the shark in the photo, hanging, above, with Limey, if that was, indeed, his real name.
Oh, and Clint and and Adam might have gone out at the jetty if they hadn’t been sort of tired from killlling it at Demon Point.
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Hi there! Every once in a while I google “limey damon great white” to find this picture to show off to one of my friends. Limey was my grandpa on my mom’s side. He just passed away a few years ago. He was an amazing man. Most of us in the family have copies of this picture hanging around somewhere but it’s nice to see it circulating the web these days. He shot that sucker with a .22. To answer your question, most people called him Limey. In fact, I never knew anyone to call him by his given first name, Gaylord.