Post #221230 by alohabros on Thu, Mar 16, 2006 12:06 PM

... there was also a "don the beachcomber" who lived in newport beach years ago... regularly walked the beaches in the early morning hours with his various australian shepards, collected shells & washed up bric-a-brac down through dana point, hung out at the dorys, paddled old wooden paddleboards through newport harbor, the channel and the mexican coast (as was told) ... owned a beautiful 38' erickson that was moored there, too... dude was real neighborly, but seemed rather melancholy... turns out his wife, of many years, had died suddenly and tragically and he, subsequently, died years later of a broken heart...