Friend got infected or something swimming in ocean yesterday.

After a long day of both work and light repairs to my home after the Kona Low. I decided to sit in front of my home and get some much needed sunlight. One of my friends from my street happened to be passing by holding a body board and some fins. He asked me if i wanted to join him for a session. I told him that i would maybe join him later on after i relax a bit. He smiled and said “ok” and continued on. I could tell he was super excited to get back in the water and seeing him happy honestly made me happy.

I actually ended up falling asleep for a bit on accident, but when i woke up i decided to go to 7-11 and grab me an icy (gotta mix the orange and the coke, trust me). After i went down to the beach to see my friend. When i got there he was ridding on a pretty mean left before finally getting barreled and disappearing into the water. He pretty much had the waves all to himself. A little time passes and his head pops up out of the white wash, he looks around for a moment and then he sees me.

After noticing me, he starts coming back to the beach, probably to say hi and take a quick rest. I noticed he was having a sort of hard time keeping his board pointed straight toward the beach for some reason, but he made it to the shore. That’s when i notice something is wrong. Bradda come wading out the water and he had 3 wings instead of 2! I lost it and started screaming, in hindsight me panicking probably didn’t help, i was honestly freaking out!

Bradda Cluck looked down to see why i was screaming and finally notices he get 2 right wings now and starts hyperventilating and screaming too!

Both of us were panicking and running around in circles. Until Bradda cluck eventually passes out from shock. I ran all the way back home to call 911 and now he is at an animal clinic! A different neighbor told me later that this happens more often than i thought and this is another reason you wait to swim for a bit after a big storm.