GASP! Gulf Area Sea Paddlers

April Fool!

Written by Loo F. Lirpa, 4/1/1997, (so, have you tried reading the name backwards yet?). :-)

In creating the previous photos and story ©, I used the below five photos and Adobe Photo Shop - all in the spirit of keeping outrageous fish stories and April Fools alive! (as well as Joe, the paddler, too). For a more realistic and rational look at paddling in the world of sharks, see GASP's page " About Those Sharks..."

I hope you had as much fun with the photos and story as I did putting it together. Thanks to Bob Myers for providing the "friend paddling Monterey Bay" photos.

Jackie Fenton



Friend kayaking Monterey Bay


Great White - from Cousteau's Great White Shark (one of my favorite books on white sharks)




Friend kayaking near seal colony in Monterey Bay


Another Great White - also from Cousteau's Great White Shark


Same friend, same bay, quite intact :-)

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