Posted on 10/14/2015 10:18:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Texas tourists Meredith Shindler and her 10-year-old Keaton visited the Golden Gate Bridge, Chinatown, the Exploratorium, Lombard Street and Pier 39. The Blue Angels whizzed over them in the sky. And they took a tour boat to Alcatraz Island.
But the highlight of the entire four-day trip to San Francisco? A great white shark eating what appears to be a sea lion in the bay.
"Yeah, Keaton's talking mostly about the shark," Shindler told NBC Bay Area on Wednesday in a phone interview from San Antonio after returning home. She captured the shark on her iPhone6 Plus on Saturday, just after she and Keaton - and her son's fourth-grade choir - had returned from a tour of Alcatraz Island. She had been taking pictures anyway of the gorgeous scenery when the shark jumped out of the water and began devouring its prey. "It swam right under us," she said. "I was in shock. I was scared to death."
Meredith and her son Keaton, of Texas, on a family trip to San Francisco, taking the ferry to Alcatraz.
Still, she instantly switched her camera to record and started filming. Keaton's excitement at the cycle of life was evident on her video. "That's a great white!" he shouts. "Holy crud!"
He continued: "It's Jaws! It's Jaws!" he continues, belting out the theme song to the shark cult film. Then he adds: "That's the best thing I've ever seen in my life."
Shark experts said the sight was rare.
It was Keaton who advised his mother to post the video on YouTube - the second time she's done so in her life. In fact, he did it for her, and by Wednesday, the video had been viewed nearly one million times. It's now the property of a licensing company, and Shindler has fielded reporter requests from Australia, Norway and England.
As for Keaton, he wasn't scarred by the bloody event.
"He's pretty well-versed in nature," his mom said. "He knows the guy was just eating a meal."
We call that a blender.....:o)
Mix in illegals, sharks, oil spills an the occasional hurricane salted by some cartel product now and then .... we’re safe compared to ya’ll.....
Stay Safe !!
The highlight of their trip was a shark eating a sea lion?
What an evil bunch.
They ought to attend an abortion and see babies torn apart.
They’d really get a kick out of that.
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