Red Flag Yellow Flag
Something I’ve learned recently about the beach: A red flag raised on the beach means no swimming, dangerous rip current activity expected. A red flag raised means that my kids are severely bummed….(at first anyway).
“If you’re dying to swim we can go in the pool”, we offer.
Silas protests. “We didn’t drive ALL the way across the country for THREE days to swim in a POOL when the ocean is RIGHT THERE!”my oldest exclaims.
“Well, then you’re just going to have to be angry at Mother Nature then. There’s nothing we can do about it.”
This anger lasted about, oh maybe 3 minutes. After breakfast we all headed down to the beach and both boys went wild in the sand, digging and building. We walked down to a recent “shipwreck.” Someone and their boat from Florida wrecked on the beach three days earlier. We threw the frisbee and football. Ivan looked for cool shells. Soon it was if no one even noticed that the water was off limits.
A few hours later a lifeguard drove up to the flagpole in his quad and started messing with the flag. I look at both kids and they have their eyes on him. At first we think he’s just replacing it, as it was quite tattered. Nope. The life guard took down the red flag and then walked out closer to the water and put up a yellow flag. A yellow flag means some rip current activity is expected. He came back to us, clearly noticing that we were all eager to know the current state of affairs on swimming. He told us it was safe to go in as long as we stayed close to shore.
The boys were in the water within seconds.
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