Jerry noticed that he was not in a mental fog any longer. In fact, it was like he had not taken a drink at all. The reality of all of this had sobered him up. There seemed to be a lot of noise coming from about two hundred yards away by some rocks. Jerry started to move in the direction of the rocks. There were a lot of lights and people around the edge of the rocks, and as Jerry got closer, he still could not see everything, but he could hear some whistling or high-pitched screaming. Jerry didn t understand until he got much closer and could see three or four dolphins caught in a small pool of water too small, in fact, for them to survive, and the people around were talking and pointing their flashlights at them. Once Jerry reached them, he asked, Does anyone know just what has caused the water to recede? Just then an older man answered, Well, I don t know for sure, but the news says that the entire west coast is just like this, and no one seems to know why. "