Right after Sunday dinner at 8:00 pm, Paul and I said in unison that we should take a walk since it was still light. Where to? Either Capitola Village or East Cliff? As we did not manage to see the ocean over the weekend, with the First Friday event downtown and Saturday dinner at a friends' in Felton, we need to breathe more sea air, so East Cliff was decided upon.
Pleasure Point was unusually moody with the rolling fog and eerie quiet after the busy celebration of Jack O'Neill's life in the morning at eleven. We did not make it for various reasons. Perhaps we preferred a quiet goodbye to the local legend.
As usual, we passed by Jack's oceanfront house. But unlike our usual walks, we stopped by and recollected ourselves to pay our respect to Jack O'Neill, one of the celebrities who have done their utmost to benefit people and environment.
Courtesy of Paul Titangos Photography
O'Neill was born on March 27th, 1923 in Denver, CO and died on June 2nd, 2017 in Santa Cruz, CA. In the span of 94 years, he was a surfer, wet suit inventor, and founder of the world renowned O'Neill surf company. The proudest invention to him is the founding of his O’Neill Sea Odyssey, a marine and environmental
education program. So far, the program has educated over 100,000 school children, to continue O'Neill's belief that, “The ocean is alive and we’ve got to take care of it.”
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