Don't Go Near the Water...

Don't go near the water / Don't you think it's sad / What's happened to the water / Our water's going bad /

some folks say why should we worry 'bout a little ol' oil spill from a little ol' Texas oil company on our coast...after all we got oil everywhere from the La Brea Tar Pits to the Carp Tar Pits to Coal Oil Point

so I went down to check out the Carpinteria Tar Pits......down by the beach at the State Park ...legend has it the Chumash used the tar for their boats..they fancied themselves carpenters so they named the little coastal town Carpinteria, which means "casino" in Spanish

I've been to the pits a few times and you would think all the beaches here would be covered with tar balls...and the conservatives justify the recent Plains All American/ Refugio oil spill by pointing out all the natural seeps here...but conservatives aren't very smart, that's why they're conservatives!!

  now as I walked around I felt again that this is the coolest State Park to camp at or just hang out..even though the parks people are trying to nativize the plants, they are losing..so the park remains pure old California...casual and beautiful...

around the tar pits I saw and smelled a clean cool ocean..people were swimming, fishing..seals were a-ok..and the tar pits are cool..the waves come in and splash all over it.. I felt the tar deposit and it's hard as asphalt because it is asphalt...and there's no tar black residue...so any seepage around here is controlled and regulated by Nature....and it makes sense otherwise it would look like a Plains All American oil spill...

Plains All American Pipeline..probably got some ex-Enron crooks working there

so I walked along and checked my boots..no tar at all....the beach, the sand was clean...there is no chance this area is polluting the Rincon, or Oxnard or Manhattan Beach..it's been here forever...

and it's an awesome spot!! the water is good....but we really need to keep these oil people, the ones who don't care, on the radar...