Santa Monica Bay

Yeah.

and they talk about arizona bay and that's supposed to be a reference to you know hicks line about how he hates la so much he hopes that the san andreas fault you know just shivs off a part of california that part containing la and the whole thing is dumped into the ocean and santa monica bay would therefore become arizona bay um i thought for sure you were the guy who told me all about bill hicks i don't know who else might have maybe he's a listener um I'll put Hicks' bit in the show notes because it's pretty funny about L.A. and kind of disturbing.

All right.

In other news, David, we've got an update.

They got their limits.

And the water was super clean in Santa Monica Bay.

Rick is my go-to guy for water conditions in Santa Monica.

The South Bay, they call it Marina del Rey, Redondo Beach, all those spots out in front of there.

Today she took a moment to reflect on the nearly 900 mile journey and the challenges she's faced along the way.

I started in Brookings, Oregon on July 1st and we are 760 miles in and we are currently in Santa Monica Bay.

It is extremely difficult.

It's funny, the swimming part is almost the easy part.

I got more on that too.

Remember in 2021, they had an equipment breakdown, and a massive amount of raw sewage gushed into Santa Monica Bay.

Turned out to be about 12 and a half million gallons of raw sewage.

I'm sure some of it's still there.

[poop plops] All the furniture that's out on the sidewalks got washed away in a storm, and it all floated through the channels into the Hyperion plant, and it seized up.

It seized up from homeless debris.

They want, didn't wanna talk about it Uh, wastewater plants like Hyperion can be overloaded and this, and eventually back up the sewage into homes and businesses, as well as flooding Santa Monica Bay.

Uh, back in 2021, the workers had to run for their lives.

Yeah.

One of the guys that's working on it says, "We could get the camera helicopter and fly over Santa Monica Bay.

I know John Davidson on, is on his boat."

[laughs]

They delivered another boat back and the delivery captain is the fiance of Kira, who is on board for the race, but she couldn't bring the boat back.

Yeah, so the morning they arrived, before dawn, Margie and I had bought coffee at Pete's and breakfast sandwiches, borrowed a rib, met them in Santa Monica Bay as the sun was coming up.

with coffee and breakfast sandwiches.

They were not expecting us.

The new 21 square foot rescue boat headquarters also has improved offices, a training room and living quarters to support 24-hour emergency operations.

Officials say the facility has the ability to dock up to six boats with direct access to them, making it perfectly situated for rapid emergency response throughout the marina and the Santa Monica Bay.

And they say construction happened with erosion in mind.

Just this facility itself, being so close to the main entrance and then having this beautiful place for them to be able to, you know, eat dinner, come in at night and rest, rehydrate so they can get back out on the water and patrol is just an incredible opportunity for us.

Well, Ronnie knew this story, too.

And it could also, the sun shines down on the bay could also be the Santa Monica Bay, uh, which many have pointed out over the years.

People on YouTube are saying it's Boston, more than people.

It was written about Boston.

How that got connected like that, I don't know.

But I got down there and there was about eight or nine in Santa Monica Bay.

That's pretty big.

And I got out there and I got up on it and I looked around and I could see all the way past the southern end and I could see up to Zuma and I went, I did it really quick and I went, wow, never seen that before.