Just the other day I was looking at some local nautical charts and saw an unusual name...Liar Rock. I wondered why would someone would name a rock such an odd name. I decided to paddle out and see if I could solve this intriging mystery. After a four mile paddle I saw Liar Rock on the distant horizon. It didn't look any different than other rocks in Sitka Sound. Just a chunk of granite rising out of the sea. (Actually, I am not sure what type of rock it was so I took it for granite.) Yet as I paddled up to the rock something strange began to happen...., the seas began to glow an erie green, the world began to swirl and wind began to whistle the music from the Twilight Zone. (dee do dee do) Then.... There I was...100 mile an hour winds, and fifty foot seas breaking all around me! The snow was blinding and the hail was as big as basketballs! A Great White Shark swam up from below and chomped down on the stern of my boat! A giant Octopus crawled up on my bow! A Bull SeaLion leapt into my lap and growled in my face and bit my paddle in half! Not willing to give up without a fight I smacked the Sealion with half my paddle and threw the other half at the Great White Shark! They both screamed in terror and dove into the sea! I reached up and tied the Octopus' arms into a big granny knot and stuffed him beneath my spray skit to save him for dinner. I started to paddle away with me bare hands when all at once things got worse.... From deep down in the brimy deep The Great White Whale, Moby Dick rose up beside me and with a devious grin flipped his tail and I and me boat went a flying through the air! I landed upside down but quickly handrolled back up only to discover the old Sealion sitting on my deck again! I hit him in the nose with my fist and he dove into the sea! I heard a laught and turned around to see ol'Moby a charging fast! Once again I started paddling like mad with my hands! Ol'Moby was gaining on me when I looked to the open sea and saw a monster Tsunami headed my way! I turned to surf this deadly wall of water. It must have been 100 feet tall carrying with it two fishing boats, a cruise ship full of screaming tourists, a submarine full of sea sick sailors and even old Noah's Ark itself. I caught the wave and rode it for all she was worth. Ol' Moby wasn't about to let me go. Years ago he got me grandaddy, Captain Ahab and now he wanted me. Ah, but I have been in worse predicaments, so I surfed straight down the wave and buried the nose of me boat deep. What an ender! Must have flipped 20 times in mid air! Moby leapt to catch me but missed by inches! He let go with a roar and slapped his tail upon the water! He knew he had met his match. Worn out by trying to catch me he sank below the seas waiting for another day. Meanwhile the wind got worse and the wave grew higher and .... When I came to the music had stopped, the sea had stopped glowing and the world had stopped swirling. I had paddled past Liar Rock and I was no longer in it's shadow. So I paddled home still wondering why in the world they would call this place was called Liar Rock. Bob Sitka *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Next one: > So I paddled home still wondering why in the world they would > call this place was called Liar Rock. Maybe Liar Rock is a kind of forbidden place???? Indian ceremony place? Maybe your personal ghost is incompatible with Liar Rocks one ? :-))))) Each part of bit of ... ... best regards Jochen ========== "Nobody is perfect, but thatīs not my name. Sorry!" *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
well Rev Bob I can see from your post you are not a animal rights person and violated several no no's At 07:18 PM 3/18/01 -0900, Rev. Bob Carter wrote: > Just the other day I was looking at some local nautical charts and saw an >unusual name...Liar Rock. >A Great >White Shark swam up from below and chomped down on the stern of my boat! A >giant Octopus crawled up on my bow! A Bull SeaLion leapt into my lap and >growled in my face and bit my paddle in half! > now you were in the G whites domain and he-she had every right to protect it from a interloper such as your self. It was only doing what they do. You were infringing on their rights by paddling there. Same with the sea lion, it gave you a warning by growling at you, that should of been enough > > Not willing to give up without a fight I smacked the Sealion with half my >paddle and threw the other half at the Great White Shark! They both screamed >in terror and dove into the sea! I reached up and tied the Octopus' arms into >a big granny knot and stuffed him beneath my spray skit to save him for >dinner. > smacked the Sealion with half my paddle- this is pure animal abuse, then threw the other half at the Great White Shark is just another horrible abuse of animals. Then you held a Octopus against its will for your own pleasure "dinner" what a disgrace > From deep down in the brimy deep The Great White Whale, Moby Dick rose up >beside me and with a devious grin flipped his tail and I and me boat went a >flying through the air! I landed upside down but quickly handrolled back up >only to discover the old Sealion sitting on my deck again! I hit him in the >nose with my fist and he dove into the sea! I heard a laught and turned around >to see ol'Moby a charging fast! > whales are a protected species and have every right to do what ever they please and you just have to grin and bear it. Then you abused that poor sea lion again, lets see mutible abuses > Ol' Moby wasn't about to let me go. Years ago he got me grandaddy, Captain >Ahab and now he wanted me. >Bob >Sitka Well I see that animal abuse runs in your family and am forwarding your story to all the proper authorities and men in white coats and some in black coats with little white collars will be comming to get you soon. You have been forwarnd *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
-----Original Message----- From: dldecker_at_se.mediaone.net <dldecker_at_se.mediaone.net> To: paddlewise <paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net> Date: Monday, March 19, 2001 5:42 AM Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] what's in a name? >well Rev Bob I can see from your post you are not a animal rights person >and violated several no no's > You are right. I have gone astray. I repent and promise next time to follow the path of Jonah and offer my self as a mid-day snack to Ol' Moby. I wonder though would Moby like me covered with soy sause or barbeque sause? Bob Sitka *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> You are right. I have gone astray. I repent and promise next time to follow > the path of Jonah and offer my self as a mid-day snack to Ol' Moby. > Now, now, Ol' Moby wouldn't eat you -- for the same reasons cannibals won't. They all know you can't keep a good man down.... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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