Capitola marina shearwater invasion

Hmmm... there might be some bait in the water:



(footage from last week)

Wow!  Hitchcock would've paid big money for some of that footage about 50 years ago.   

Can you imagine how many times you'd get crapped on if you yakked through that mess?!   

When I was a kid we used to camp at the jetty campgrounds in HMB every weekend during the summer.  One year there was a baitball that stretched at least 2 miles south from the mouth of the harbor and all the way inshore to about a 1/4 mile off the beach.  The birds were so thick you coulda walked accross them and the water looked like a black cloud.  I remeber seeing a boston whaler pull up on the edge and throwing a castnet, they didn't catch much cause the birds were fouling the throws. Crazy stuff, it only lasted a couple days and I've never seen it like that again.