Thoughts on..OOHHHHH WA%@$!%

So today was day off, some old friends came down from NYC for some good new-fashioned time at the Jersey Shore. After the dentist visit (my teeth are pretty good at being teeth apperentally...) we went over to Brick Beach #1 and set up beach camp. It was a cloudy day, a fairly strong wind was blowing. Not exactly prime weather for my first summer day at the Shore. There were probably five other people at the beach, every one wa very non-chalant. So I walk out into the water, the icy cold water wading around my ankles, as I survey the vast expanse of sea I see a black flicker in my proliferal vision. Now I am not sure if I have explained this but me and the ocean have a deal. Basically we are chill as long as I am no more then like 10 feet out and there is no living marine life near me. This flash of movement really freaked me out. I did not say anything at first, I was not sure I saw anything and did not want to be a "sissy". I slowly back out of the water and watch the area where I saw the thing. All of a sudden...yeah WHALE. There is a freaking whale like 20 feet of the shore and this thing breaches the surface and spouts a huge plume of water. It dives back under and swims up the coast. We followed it for awhile and basked in the beauty of it all. It had to be at least 15 ft long, I am no Whaleologist, but it looked like a Humpback Whale. Not sure but either way it was, for lack of better words, a legit whale. Pretty intense first trip to the shore.

After that we went to Seaside Heights. It was crowded, trashy and dirty. Like the TV show. So to complete the tile of the Blog..."OHHHHHHH WWHHAAAALLLLEEEE!!!!" You will notice that is in quotations, if anyone can tell me what that quote is from..I will give you 100 Internets.



Song semi-related to topic of post..skill

-KGM

Thoughts on some pretty deep stuff...

So as promised I spent my day coming up with something of significance to blog about. What I ended up with was going to the beach, walking on the board walk and having a very interesting conversation. Don't ask me how we got into such a random topic, but basically we were "arguing" how to live ones life in relation to other people. Pretty broad sounding topic but it got rather pointed during the discussion. I centered my argument around the topic of the ocean, seeing as how we were right next to it. Basically my view has a lot to do with the tragedy of the commons. If you don't know exactly what that is I will summarize. Any resource, commodity or space that is available to everyone in an uncontrolled capacity will without fail be abused by someone. The ocean is literally the textbook example of the TOC theory, it was in my Biology textbook. So fishing in the ocean my be controlled in countries, perhaps like the USA. Our government regulates how many fish, what kinds of fish, etc. etc. The tragedy is that the USA is not the only country that is fishing the oceans. All countries in the world share the same ocean and some countries may not be as "developed" as the USA and thus their regulation on ocean fishing may not be up to par. I go a bit beyond "up to par" and say that due to the greedy streak in human kind, some people out there will just grab as much fish as they possibly can. So while some countries try to regulate and protect the ocean and it's fish, other countries or groups of people could careless. They earn money off the fish and no one can really control how much fish they take from the ocean. So eventually the ocean runs out of fish. But wait! we here in the USA regulated our fishing. We made sure to only take what the ocean could replenish and were careful not to damage the ecosystem, why do we get screwed out of the deal. That is because not everyone cares as much as you do and did abuse the system if you will. So the final result is that no one has any fish, and the regulations by the USA may have stalled the inevitable outcome, but did not change it. So my opinion is that why not live life acknowledging that in situations where something similar to the TOC could occur, BE REALISTIC. Don't short-change yourself under the pretenses of saving the planet, or taking the moral high road, when in reality all you are doing is stepping out of the way for the less moral, and more greedy person to come and abuse the situation. I must clarify that I take this view on some but not all issues. I am not saying live life as an immoral and greedy bastard, all I am saying is that people need to put some thought into their actions, question whether they do certain things because they are actually helpful to a situation or if they are simply portrayed by society as being "positive".

As for my mother, I will do my best to summarize it. It is her view and if I miss represent it she will have me fix it. I think that: My mom's view is that in these situations, like being active in ecological preservation work, the outcome is more or less irrelevant. You take the action because you are true to yourself, and you feel that it is the right thing to do. Whether or not you may be hurt by the eventual outcome is again irrelevant. You took action in a positive manner because you felt that it was the right thing to do. In the end the only thing you have control over is yourself. No matter what happens to you, no matter what people do to harm you, they can never control how you think or feel about it.

I think that she thinks I am to cynical, but I think I am just being realistic....
What do you think?



-Kyle Griffith McChesney

Thoughts on Aquariums!

So I am going to the Baltimore tomorrow, my dad has a layover there so we are staying the night and then going to the Baltimore Aquarium, which is considered our "National Aquarium". It had better be pretty damn good to be considered the National Aquarium. Anyways I love aquariums, because I am terrified of sharks and other marine creatures, (I only swim out like ten feet in the ocean). So this way I can hopefully confront my fears in a safe place. I guess what I am trying to say is that aquariums kick butt, they are way cooler then zoos because they are underwater. This is a short and lame post, but I have to get to bed early yah know?? I will be taking a bunch of pictures from my trip to Baltimore, the Aquarium and possibly this zombie museum thing that my mom found. Oh and my blog almost has five hundred views, keep it up and tell your friends!!!

That is all for tonight...

-Kyle Griffith McChesney