Raise that to probably wouldn't have known better. A lot of people you'd think should know better understimate the ocean. I've seen it a lot -- you have too, right?
You said — “Raise that to probably wouldn’t have known better. A lot of people you’d think should know better understimate the ocean. I’ve seen it a lot — you have too, right?”
Well, a lot of people just go to the Oregon Coast from inland. And they may not do it very often. You know how it is, sometimes — you’ve got a featured travel area that you live close to and you don’t go very often. That’s the way it’s going to be for most of the people in Oregon. And that guy lived in Silverton (near Salem).
Many people in Oregon just don’t realize the danger and they live there (but don’t live on the coast). Now, I would imagine that a person who lived on the coast would get up-to-speed pretty quickly. But, someone driving in from the Willamette Valley may not be as smart about it.
They don’t always realize the nature and danger of the waves. You hear the media giving warnings all the time about it, but — still — people seem to think differently that what the warnings are indicating.
Once again, this is *such a normal thing* (i.e., what people would do) — that it raises no suspicions in my mind. And neither does it raise the suspicions of the police there in Neskowin, because they’ve seen too many tourists... LOL...