Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Slack Line Juggler Santa Monica Beach

This post is dedicated to my friend JK.

Another day with workers putting in moulding, doing electrical work, and various odds and ends at the house.  Phone calls to arrange further stuff, moving furniture, figuring where to hang pictures, and other work preparing my mom's house for rental for most of the year when we're at home in Anchorage.

I couldn't wait to get on the bike and ride down to the beach and then north along the beach bike trail.   I try to go earlier, because it gets more crowded as it gets closer to the sunset.  Today I had to stop and take some pictures. First, they had a much longer slack line than I've seen there before - it's the first one you see in the video.  Then on another wire was a juggler.  I also pan on the trail so you can see the traffic I have to navigate in this section of the trail, just south of the Santa Monica Pier (which you can see in the background.  Watch for the roller coaster.)



That spot on my camera is getting annoying. Sorry.

Once I get past the pier, the traffic thins out.  There is one short row of houses, separated from the beach by the public bike trail.



And there was a film crew camped out in one of the parking lots.


And I was getting back to the point where I leave the beach and head home, the almost full moon was rising to the east.



















And to the west the sun was slipping down toward the ocean.




















Here's why I did the video - you can see that a still shot just do this juggler justice.  You need to see the balls moving while the juggler goes up and down on the slack line.






2 comments:

  1. Way fun! I always wanted to learn how to juggle on tight and slack ropes. Maybe this is the year.
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    1. Figured you'd enjoy this. Maybe we can find a park in Anchorage for slack liners to set up every week (day?) this summer.

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