Chez Dom & Sophie

Aquarium Of The Pacific

Last Saturday, Hugo along w/ mom, dad & grandma visited

for the first time the Aquarium Of The Pacific located in Long Beach, CA.

Hugo had a really good time. He discovered sharks, lorikeets, sea lions, sea otters, etc...

shark attack

Last week discovery channel proposed us beautiful documentaries about sharks during all the week.
A special night "Anatomy of a shark attack " freaked me out, they analysed 3 different attacks of sharks which have been filmed in live by people who where in the vincinity of the victims. The first victim was studying bull sharks when one of them bite his leg to the tibia, the second one the most frightening was a woman on a cruise in the middle of the pacific she just jumped in the water to swim with friends when a white shark cut all her leg in two bites, they analyse the bite and discovered that the jaw of the great white had 900 pounds of pressure.
The third one was a body boarder whose hand was cut by a lemon shark, he believed that his glowing watch attracted the shark.
As I like to go swim and boady board in the Californian waters I was just curious about the species of sharks who live there first answer : Great White Sharks. Even if the deadly attacks are very rare in California, the news from yesterday reports a fatal attack on the central coast where seals(main course of the white shark) are swimming.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/2415979/detail.html

If you want to know more about sharks this is the link for the discovery channel shark week programm
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/sharkweek.html

But that's my longboard "on Fire"

Nico's waiting for my picture

Nico in '94 - Les Aigrettes, Reunion Island

El Porto

Ah l'ete le soleil la mer et .... le surf.
C est surement grace a l influence de notre entourage californien (voisins et collegues) que nous sommes tombes dans la surf culture. Impossible d'y echapper le surf est partout sur toutes les plages, des le plus jeune age et jusqu a 77 ans.
Les gens surfent le matin avant d aller travailler et le soir avant le coucher du soleil pas de surfeurs du dimanche dans notre entourage.
Un spot genial pas loin de chez nous.. c est El Porto les vagues y sont toujours plus grosses qu ailleurs cela est du a la forme de la cote et du fond de l ocean.