A few blog posts ago I wrote about how I always carry one of my Flip HD video cameras with me. There is just so much fodder out there for those who like to catch humanity or nature at its finest.
The other day while driving up A1A, I caught some remarkable video of a thunderstorm over the ocean. (I still have to put that footage online.) As I was recording, a woman came up and asked, “Did you record the two waterspouts about a mile back?” I dropped the f-bomb and told her I didn’t see them. Damn, I never saw one, yet alone two, and would have loved the opportunity to capture that.
Anyway, today I’m sitting enjoying the weather at the beach, when my eye caught something a little strange. Now, I’ve seen people do the horizontal mambo at the beach before, but this was even stranger. After all, sex on the beach is so popular they named a drink after it, but this….. well, I don’t know.
I grabbed my camera and started filming. Was it some type of new-age way to get in touch with one’s inner-self? Maybe some form of meditation? Perhaps it was practice for the Rotary Club’s presentation of Swan Lake?
When I showed the footage to my friend Joaquin, he summed it up pretty good, “Dude, the guy’s trippin’!”
Trippin’, Swan Lake, meditation, whatever it is, it’s a reminder for me to always have that camera ready to capture moments like these.