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Back in the days of Big Brother, Jeff Tremaine and I would usually detour the magazine’s “skateboard” road trips through some form of viewable nature setting (my favorite still being the Shark Valley Everglades stop we made on the Tamiami Trail with Clyde Singleton in 1999). Keeping this tradition alive and well, we hugged the coastline up to San Simeon, after skating an age-old ditch in Cambria, to observe its now famous farting elephant seal population. Unfortunately all the fat fucking bull males were out to sea dodging Pacific great whites, while the females and “teenage” males occupied the beachfront waters (I say unfortunately because the bulls can measure up to 16-feet in length and frequently throw down with each other in these Sumo-like fights to establish dominance in the mating game). Trekking out to an outcropping, Chris Pontius toed the Wildboyz line but never entirely crossed it (plus it’s just not the same without Steve-O), as some curious males bobbed in the background. Losing light and visibility with a massive fog bank that had engulfed the Big Sur coastline, we opted to err on the side of caution and double back down Highway 1 to take the 101N up to Santa Cruz instead. Hence, the live show we continually pushed throughout the day did not really take place until 1:00am PST after Mike G. attempted to check us into two wrong hotels before finding the right one.

(photos by Sean Cliver; San Simeon, CA; 2008)