I grew up in Rhode Island. Sometimes, Rhode Island can be a little odd.
Recently, the Boston Globe reported on the absence of great white sharks near the Rhode Island beaches. Why the absence in Rhode Island when so many great white sharks appear near Cape Cod? So many are near Cape Cod that Steven Spielberg made a movie about one.
The Globe says: seals. No seals in Rhode Island. Therefore, no great white sharks. People have seen fins. Beaches have been closed because of fins. Swimming was limited at the Salty Brine State Beach. Salty Brine was a radio announcer after whom the beach was named. The water is fine, normal, no more salty than any other ocean beach.
The Globe explained. The fins could have been sharks. They could have been dolphins. The fins could even have been reflections from a giant sunfish.
The Globe said nothing about White Russians. Nothing about anything anyone might have been drinking. Rhode Island’s chief of marine fisheries was quoted. He said that Cape Cod has a lot of white sharks. The sharks in Rhode Island are more diverse.
Diverse schools of sharks. Without a word about busing.