Shark Week Begins...

Day 5 - Urunga

I woke up earlier than the other two boys and ate breakfast. Everyone else went to the beach, and I stayed back to wait for Liam and Ross to get out of bed. When they finally got up, we had a solid workout consisting of power cleans, bench press, shoulder burn-outs, etc. As we finished up, Diantha came back to the house and took us to the beach. Luke, Jack, and Fergus (Jack’s dog) tagged along. We got to the beach and the weather was gloomy. It was kinda chilly, kinda windy, and kinda dark. Gloomy. We went into the water expecting to be freezing, but it had nothing on the Oregon coast waters. Once we got in all the way, it was actually quite nice. We body boarded on the 4-6 foot waves, which are pretty freaking huge! We came in and started playing with a football. The Aussies taught us how to throw a ball the “proper” way, and then we told them they were wrong and helped them do it the right way. We started up a game of 2v2 football (the right way) with Ross as the all-time QB. Early in the game, Pat told us that they had found an 8 foot shark washed up a kilometer or two down the beach. We took off running...

When we got there, a guy was starting to cut out the shark’s jaw. I guess that was alright though, because the body was just gonna be washed back into the ocean and decompose, why not take a trophy? He left and we decided to take pictures with it. Too bad the camera was TWO KILOMETERS AWAY AT THE CAR! Obviously, I was the one voted to run back and get it... so I did.

We had a lot of fun with the shark. Looking back, it seems a little weird to be playing with the body of a dead fish, but whatever, it was worth it. Here are some pictures (more on facebook):

After pushing Phil’s (thats what we named him) body back into the sea, we washed up and went back to Ross’ to eat grilled cheese and drink cokes. After about two hours, Luke left to work and Jack took his dog home. We watched our videos of the shark, uploaded the pictures, and made up a story about how we wrestled it to death.

Later in the evening, ate dinner and then went to the pub. After a few hours we went back to Jack’s for the night. Great day!