An overlooked Maui community realizes ‘no one is coming to save you’ from the great Reis Thebault wapo.st/3SyEDpM

Just finished Burn Coast by the great Dale Maharidge. Vivid, spell-binding portrait of people and places at the edge of our continent and a clear-eyed elegy for the end of an era and ethos. Glad I didn’t read it before I tried to write about Humboldt; I would never have tried.

What a picture….

California’s been good to me, hope it don’t fall into the sea….

And a ship wreck - or a 30-foot sloop wreck - even before the main event. This one looks pretty derelict so probably had it coming in any storm swell.

Between storms in Santa Barbara, looking east.

Interesting story from my backyard...
Pictures may offer a rare glimpse of a baby great white shark wapo.st/4bbFoO1
I wrote about this young (though no possible newborns) shark population a few years ago. washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07…

805 and beyond legend Dane Reynolds this morning at Rincon Classic. Beautiful day and conditions. #lareina #rinconclassic

Very smart Emmanuel Felton story: Black Americans aren’t enthusiastic about reparations yet. Here’s why. wapo.st/3HBCx3y

Important, compelling and all-around brilliant Ellen Barry work on an excruciating decision many of the mentally ill and homeless face every day. nytimes.com/2024/01/28/hea…

Thanks so much, Autumn, very grateful. I’ve also updated my goal given that my last one was for the 2022 effort.

Just another day in The Cove…. #lareina #rincon

Not the biggest surf - very high tide - but beautiful morning to start this great contest. #rinconclassic2024

Thanks so much, Jeffrey.

Thanks so much, Deena.