Thoughts and Reflections
About A Trip To Australia
(Click on Australia to go to the main Australia
web site)
After
most of an hour of viewing all of this beauty
below us, we were cold, excited, enraptured, if you will, with what
we had just seen. Fran got out of her wet clothes walked over to the bar and
asked for coffee with booze in it. To our surprise the bartender had never
heard of adding alcohol to coffee. I am not sure if they were more shocked
by spoiling good coffee or good alcohol, but they graciously met her request.
The heat of the coffee and the bite of whiskey was a welcome dessert after
this wonderful experience. After warming up, we were ready to explore some
of the other experiences open to us at this spot out in the Pacific Ocean.
The
other way to experience the beauty of this setting was in the relative comfort
of a glass sided partially submerged boat. The views were considerably less
colorful than what was afforded via snorkeling, but there was a great deal
more diversity of fish life to be seen from the boat than was available from
those of us swimming above looking down. Still, there were wonderful sites
to see here as well. The bottom line is that this one day journey has had
profound effects on our lives as we have gone ahead to seek our open water
diving certification. We will get our first chance to really explore this
when we visit Hawaii in July of 2000. If you are a science fiction fan and
a snorkeler or diver please visit another site I have set up called Fen
With Fins. I would like to encourage those that love this experience
to get together a bit. If you would like to see a Real Video version of the
trip and have a high speed cable or DSL connection, check out the video of
the submerged boat trip in real video format
or the Windows Media version.
You will need either the latest version of Real Player or Windows Media Player
and a high speed internet connection, however. Experiments with getting this
to look worth viewing in 56k mode failed, so either download the entire file
or view the stream on a high speed connection.
