Visitors on Grover Beach in California are accustomed to seeing surfers catching a wave on the beach. But they were given a surprise when a goat named “Goat-ee” tried balancing his hooves on a board. “Goat-ee” owner, Dayna McGregor, says he initially bought “Goat-ee” to eat weeds in his garden, but after she started following him around everywhere, she soon became his pet.

The lazy racism which describes tribal people as ‘primitive’ and ‘backwards’ is now being challenged wherever it occurs. Like all human societies, theirs are constantly changing and developing. Accusations of savagery are as wide of the mark as doomed attempts to ‘preserve’ living cultures.

A woman floating on a surfboard near Santa Cruz, California almost ended up on the lunch menu for a humpback whale over the weekend. Barb Roettger had her camera rolling as two hefty whales popped out of the calm waters not far from the unsuspecting surfer and a pair of kayakers.