rip currents can sweep
even best swimmers into
deeper water

Beaufort County, SC Sheriff’s Office

Advisory: Rip Current Statement until 08:00PM Wednesday

• WHAT…For the High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip currents. For the High Surf Advisory, large breaking waves up to 6 feet in the surf zone.
• WHERE…South Carolina Beaches, and Georgia Beaches.
• WHEN…For the High Rip Current Risk, through Wednesday evening. For the High Surf Advisory, until 8 PM EDT Thursday.
• IMPACTS…Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and localized beach erosion. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
• AFFECTED AREAS: COASTAL BRYAN … COASTAL CHATHAM … COASTAL LIBERTY … COASTAL MCINTOSH … BEAUFORT … COASTAL COLLETON … CHARLESTON … COASTAL JASPER

Instructions: Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions.

Summertime beaches of America are patrolled by lifeguards who put out different colored flags to signal swimming conditions.

The colors are pretty much univeral.

Green: Safe to Swim

Yellow: Use Caution

Red: Rough Conditions – Some say beach closed, some say swim at your own risk …

Double Red: Beach closed for Swimming.

Seaside beaches also have a blue or purple flags indicate jellyfish, stingrays, and dangerous fish in the water – something I didn’t have to deal with growing up on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Also, there is this caveat.

Absence of flags does not assure safe waters.

other edifice
altruistic as lighthouse
built only to serve

Ran across this great quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw in the New York Times:

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

Sadly, while I searched for an attribution, I had no luck.

So I asked ChatGTP.

Here is the response I got.

The quote often attributed to George Bernard Shaw —”I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve” — is widely circulated online, but there is no verifiable source confirming that Shaw actually said or wrote these exact words.

Key facts:
The quote does not appear in any of Shaw’s known plays, essays, or recorded speeches.

It is absent from authoritative quote databases and scholarly collections of Shaw’s work.

Some sources attribute a similar sentiment to H.G. Wells, Anne Lamott, or Virginia Woolf, but again, no definitive origin has been verified.

Most Likely Status:
This quote is misattributed or paraphrased from another source, possibly meant to reflect Shaw’s ideals but not directly from him.

let young come, says sea
let them kiss my face, tell where
storms and stars come from

The sea is never still.
It pounds on the shore
Restless as a young heart,
Hunting.

The sea speaks
And only the stormy hearts
Know what it says:
It is the face
of a rough mother speaking.

The sea is young.
One storm cleans all the hoar
And loosens the age of it.
I hear it laughing, reckless.

They love the sea,
Men who ride on it
And know they will die
Under the salt of it.

Let only the young come,
Says the sea.
Let them kiss my face
And hear me.
I am the last word
And I tell
Where storms and stars come from.

Young Sea by Carl Sandburg as published in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, by Carl Sandburg, Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1950.

Spent the day at the beach with Grandkidz Jaxon, Stefano, Essence and Kendra.

I was lifeguard, activities director and caterer but it was really just an excuse for me to have a play date at the beach.