Thomas Pickett and his wife, who recently returned from 40 years in the restaurant business on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, watched a spectacular water rescue at Mitchell’s Cove, off West Cliff Drive, just before the end of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed about a mile away. Two guards on jet skis saved two surfers from huge waves that he says were “whole category bigger than the 15- to 20-footers these guys had been chasing.” He recounts the drama here and applauds the heroism of our local part-time lifeguards.
