Howard Burns & Oak Streakers Shining Brightly At Night
Howard Burns is a real estate administrator and open water swimmer who swims year-round with Oak Streakers of Laguna Beach, California. A frequent participant in the many ocean swims along the California coast, Burns was the 2011 Southern Pacific Masters Swimming Open Water Swimming Series winner in the men’s 55-59 age division.
He also recently penned the poem below:
It was bright, large and white
Glowing across the sea
Sparkling night ocean foamed
As the Oak Streakers roamed
Thru high tide and kelp grass
In suits, but what is that odd glow?
the water surface fluctuates from an odd flow
there is another odd situation
It comes from the Oak streaker nation
this light, it shines up not down
From few not one, each cracked, partly drowned
Tales from shore of what beachgoers viewed
Oak Streakers don’t tell, Oak Streakers mooned
Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Daily News of Open Water Swimming and founder of WOWSA. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010).
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