"The following two alternatives were written in 1972, in a U.K. magazine called Surf Insight.
It’s a beautiful day – the sun clear and strong – sky absolute blue and the air fresh on your nostrils. You wake to a bowl of fresh fruit and two huge farm eggs, grab your board and walk through green, dewy fields to your favourite surf spot. Not another being in sight except for the animals and birds going about their morning’s business. The beach is pure and inviting – you dig your toes into golden sand...
It’s a beautiful day? – the sun weak – half obliterated by a perfect morning smog, the sky greyish-blue and the air smarting in your nostrils and choking your lungs... You gasp for another deep breath of sweet industrial smog – a yummy bowl of plastic Krunchy Pops with pasteurized milk and two battery- hen eggs you can hardly taste gobbled down with relish before the long walk through a concrete jungle to your favourite surf spot. Smiling, you hassle your way through milling people and honking cars to the crowded beach. Dig your toes into empty beer cans and assorted rubbish and make for the ocean – the sea a murky grey – the taste of effluent on your mouth – brown sludge floating past you on a gentle swell... " (as cited in Butt, 2011, p. 3)
Butt, T. (2011). The sustainable guide to surfing. Retrieved from http://www.sas.org.uk/
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