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2/22/11 11:08 AM Wave Hunting in Big Sur | The Surfing Handbook Page 1 of 11 http://www.surfinghandbook.com/2010/12/wave-hunting-in-big-sur/ Home About Forum Knowledge Surf Gear Surfboard Design Writer s Wanted! enter search terms .. Wave Hunting in Big Sur Stefan Slater | Dec 16, 2010 | 4 comments Like Pati Slater , Andrew Fiouzi and 47 others like this. The hawk flew over the hood of my car. I slowed down a bit, and watched as it perched on a fencepost, a squirming rattlesnake in its talons. The snake’s tail flai led around desperately—with obviou s terror—as the hawk bent down, and in one swift motion tore off its head. The hawk then began to voraciously rip away chunks of flesh, as the snake’s tail continued to writhe about sporadically. It eventually stopped moving. That was the first thin g I saw when I arrived at Big Sur. Named long ago by the insightful Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola for its vast uncivilized expanses south of the relative security

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