I can’t get my head wet . What do you do ? You come down to the beach, of course. Decided I’d watch Leroy at beach camp . On the realisation that after 10 minutes that I’d need to ‘take the horses for a drink’ , I had no option but to get in the water from the waste down . No problem , but on my return back to my towel and belongings I caught the thief who more than likely stole my sunglasses two days previous . You see , this fucker was casing through my red target bag and was in the midst of pulling shit out of it . He’d pulled the pencil case out and had his head in there looking for something more valuable like my phone . He had a heap of his mates scouting for him just back behind the life guards tower. I snuck up a bit and he stopped and put his head up and looked me square in the eye .’ You mother fucker ‘ , I mouthed at him . Fuck it , I charged straight at the dirty fucker . He took off and then dropped back down low from a safe distance . His mates spread back to the opening of the storm drain . I checked the bag and I couldn’t find my goddam phone . Fark! Surely he couldn’t of grabbed that ,its way too much of an ask . No , I found it in my pocket . I just took it for a dip in the ocean while I was relieving myself . Terrific. Fortunately it was still operational as I quickly dried it off with my tee shirt. More than likely gave it a good acid bath in urine , but very fortunate that it wasn’t submersed for any length of time .Your never gonna catch these little thieves for they are Pacific gulls. Yep , birds . These big seagull like things are brazen when it comes to stalking your belongings ,looking for food . They’l drag your stuff out looking for something to snack on . A gull had just previously flew off with a full bag of chips that were unopened from another families belongings . It seems a long bow to draw but my oakliegh sunglasses were sitting in my cap as Tex and I surfed right in front . I saw the birds close to our stuff but wasn’t worried as there was no food . I didn’t see a person get within 10 meters of our belongings . I reckon it picked it up briefly and probably dropped it far enough away from my towel for someone to pick up a nice little prize on their daily beach walk .
This bird had just been in my bag . Apparently Los Angles beaches are prime targets for thieves . It was just that I had my eye on the non feathered variety .