Things I wish I had a picture of, but don't

• A foot-and-a-half-long fish that I saw swimming nonchalantly in a nearly vertical head-high wave that I was paddling out to last week. It was like an aquarium tank with no glass. I was so surprised I stopped paddling and got nailed by the wave. The fish appeared to have no thoughts on the encounter whatsoever.
• A stingray jumping out of the water about twenty yards from where I was surfing. The maneuver was so graceless that it took a second before I realized what I'd seen. It looked more like a mortarboard being tossed in the air at a gradation ceremony than anything else.
• Pelicans dive-bombing for fish. They do a good imitation of a WWI fighter plane getting shot down, first stalling out mid-flight, then spiraling wildly down and finally crashing dramatically in the water.