At 18:40 18/08/01 +1000, Strike wrote:

>Unlike, say the U.K., the Sydney winter offers the very best diving
>conditions.

Here in the east part of the Mediterranean, it is quite the same.  The
water is clearer in the winter, and when the sea is not to high, the diving
is good.

>Although water temperatures were a bloody freezing 17 deg. C., visibility
>was between 15 - 20 metres.

We get 16 deg. C. in the winter :-)   The vis you get is great though.

>The thing that hurt me was, puffing and panting on my way back up to
>thecar-park, (and the coffee and Tim-Tams), I recalled the efforts of the
>four CD's who - on Thursday - carried me for a kilometre up an even
>steeper and more rugged terrain for a kilometre without even getting short
>of breath!  I tried to console myself with the fact that I had at least
>thirty years of good living over them - and it worked! :-)

Ah, the tricks that we can play with our minds :-)

Thanks for the report.



Regards,

                    Kuty