All You Need is Love!

Last swim: Saturday at Noon

Next Swim - Sunday at Noon

Air Temp: All sun. 48 on arrival, 52 on departure
Water Temp: 46.7 
Clarity: meh, muddy near shore, clearer further out
Waves: 1-2 foot waves

Kru: Itch, Brick, Rosie, Mr. Bubble, Lydia TTL, newcomer Martin

Shore Support:  Patriarch, Diablo, Magic Mike, Moondaug, Martin's daughter Anna

While I'm chatting with Martin to get to know him, Brick comes along and says "Mr. Bubble, could you put this picture up on the blog?  It's the Love Rock which used to be across from Bradford Beach.  They blew it up in 1986".  Aha!  I reply.  I remember that rock.  I moved to Atlanta in 1983 and it was gone when I moved back in 1996, and I always wondered what happened to it.  

All this talk about what happened to the Love Rock in 1986 skipped over the question that was really on my mind - Why did Brick want me to post this picture all of a sudden?  What was the relevance and significance to today?  

This article from the Shepherd's Express lays out the "official" history of the love rock, but everyone knows that's just fake news.  You see, almost everyone thinks that the Love Rock was a man made, inanimate object.  That's what the fake newsers want you to believe.  But if that's true, then how can you explain this?  

Three rock piles suddenly appeared in Klode Beach, just a few years after the Love Rock was blown up.  Just a coincidence?  Don't be a sheep - that original Love Rock is an alien life form - it grew out of a meteorite that struck the earth right there.  You see, the Love Rock was an illegal alien!  After 91 years, the city fathers decided they couldn't tolerate illegal aliens any more and they made plans to deport it.  They would blast it back in to space - back to the country it came from!  

Ah, but the city fathers didn't realize that was exactly what the illegal rock alien wanted them to do.  By exploding the Love Rock, they were actually dispersing it's spores all across the Lake Michigan coast.  Klode Beach was the perfect spot for the spores to germinate, and so the Love Rock has been reincarnated 3 times over. 

Today's Killepitsch toast - Best Swim of the Season, of course.