Gordaen’s Blog

This past weekend, I went out to Larrabee State Park to do some hard-core adventuring.

Through the trees along the trail, I was able to see my goal: the water.

Though I could not read, I was sure I was going the right way.

I spoke to the three crabs, and they told me, “Beware, the purple people eater is ahead.” Pssh, who believes that nonsense? A purple people eater? Come on, they could have at least made up something funny like a trustworthy and intelligent politician!

I turned the corner and WHAM! There it was! Or maybe they?

Whew, it was actually a bunch of starfish and not a purple people eater. Though they did nibble on my big toe…

I found the Lone Starfish. He told me, “Thou shalt not step on me,” and he was right. I didn’t have shoes on.

At last, through the woods I could see the water, hiding, waiting… but I was not alone…

Ah ha! I found another person. Not only was he uninterested in feasting on my flesh, he wasn’t even purple.

At last, I came across the real beach and the local inhabitants. None of them spoke to me, so they were surely an unevolved off-shoot of the crab species I had seen earlier.

And then I came to the end of the world…