blue bottles. shrieking for an amputation. surfers have extra-ordinary experiences. banded sea snake next.
Thanks for this link Chich. I was at the beach the morning this happened, I didn't know what that sh!t was. The entire beach was littered with them, they were super slimy and stinky. Never seen anything like it, except when I was in SD back during the first documented El Nino summer ('83). Beaches were littered with billions of little red "langostinos" or whatever they were. Literally tons of them in the lineups, the little bastards would pinch your toes out in the water. What a pain in the a$$.
Sorry to disappoint you brah, but no...I've never smoked colitas de alacran. I've known many Mexicans over the years (hell, I even married one) but I've only heard of this on SI. It's too bad, because there were so many of those little bastards running around at Abreojos, I probably would've just stayed and never left. Surf...catch alacranes...smoke tails, drink Pacifico's...hallucinate...repeat. EDIT: However, there was this one time at Matanchen, I hooked up with a local who had this special cactus....
That is fantastic. Wish I got seeds for them years ago while they were still available. Man, I'm gonna do some research, bc I either read that in some old mags, or saw it on Warren Millers 1980 masterpiece Extreme Surf
Dude, I didn't know that Warren Miller made a Surf Flick...you gotta be kidding me. Looks like I'm gonna be doing some research too. Also, I didn't mention that one time at Open Eyes, me and my buddy hooked up with a guy who worked for the Mexican government and was tending a huge oyster farm in the local estuary. Later that night, he made us a killer ceviche with clams and oysters and we washed it down with local beers and chased them with some local "polvo". I guess it made up for the fact that my buddy made me promise to not bring any "yerba", and I was jonesing hard.
Yup...circa early 80's...it was my first glimpse of Todos and Scorpion Bay as a kid. Killer fn theme song too
I was watching a show on a science station and the guy was calling how humans have raped the ocean, the SLIMEification of the sea. And that jellies are thriving in schitt watter with little to no oxygen. What the fug killed all those? Fukishima I betcha!
I was offered some at Playa Carmen once. Little balls with barbs on them. No grassyass. Da me mota por favor.
And THEY're still pumping millions of gallons of seawater into 3 containment (?) blds where the cores have burnt into the ground.
