Sea creatures of California

From the San Diego Reader, posted by someone on www.cryptozoology.com, is this delightful collection of "monster" tales - hoaxed and sincere - from Southern California. They include flying beasts (one of which was shot and turned out to be a condor) and a variety of snakelike and un-snakelike creatures reported on the beach and offshore. A fisherman's tale of a fat, sluggish ten-foot eellike animal is interesting to me because it's so unusual and low-key for a "sea serpent" report.