Well, I took wed off to celebrate my birthday, planned my day starting with surfing one of the local spots I use to go in my youth.
Just my luck, it was flat, but I figured that would paddle out since the dolphins were swimming.
After paddling a few hours, I figured I would head in so I could hit the new indoor go cart track and about halfway to the beach a shark pops up in front of me

So I calmly stop paddling, and take my arms out of the water and wait, then paddle kept that up until I got in.
Later at my surprise party, I was telling a buddy about it and asked if I checked the local surf report, 911surftreport.com, And pulled it turned out he was there taking pics at the Poles and got a few pix of me .
these were on the site.