NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- If there has ever been an individual who epitomizes the surfer crowd, in my book that would be Kem McNair. He's the ultimate surfer dude with an excellent eye for the creatures of the ocean: Those in it like the sharks, whales, dolphins and manatees.
Those who burrow in the wet sand like the hermit crabs and other creepy crawlers. Those who glide above the surf and dive for their food like the graceful pelicans and other small birds that little kids love to chase on the beach.
McNair, 61, who has surfed the waters off New Smyrna Beach for half a century now, is featured today on HeadlineSurfer.com for a breaking news feature on a right whale he spotted and tracked, but that was by chance.
Headline Surfer® had planned on starting a year-long series on him, beginning Sunday and each month after that on the final Sunday through December.
Had it not even for McNair, I wonder if anyone else would have even noticed the right whale that cruised along at a snail's pace about a hundred yards off shore.
Certainly nobody has said anything on social media, outside of McNair. How does one miss a right whale. They are huge. And this one was mischievous, spraying water in the air, flapping its flippers and bobbing in and out of the surf as it headed south along the coastline just after noon on Tuesday.
Certainly nobody has said anything on social media, outside of McNair. How does one miss a right whale. They are huge. And this one was mischievous, spraying water in the air, flapping its flippers and bobbing in and out of the surf as it headed south along the coastline just after noon on Tuesday.
Each of the 12 segmebts will focus on either McNair's interaction or observation with wildlife or his surfing to develp an in-depth composite on one of Volusia County's most fascinating personalities.
McNair, a reserved and humble person and nohing like the sterotypicval Southern California surfer dude, was all too happy to participate in this indepth series, himself a fan of the 24/7 internet newspaper and its brand of award-winning journalism.
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