On  Monday, September 06, 2004 10:13 AM, Don Ward wrote:

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>March 05 is no good for me.  October or November?  Maybe.

>Really, the best times for me to take the time off work that such a trip
requires are July and January, but I guess those times aren't that good in
that part of the world?

>No matter, keep me posted.  I'm a definite maybe.

Mate!  You're already on the list!  I thoroughly enjoyed your company in
Fiji - and can't wait for a repeat meeting.  (Although - as you mention -
the times that are good for you are not the very best times for a southern
hemisphere visit.  Particularly in the tropics where the cyclone season is
generally reckoned to be from December to February - the 'wet' season that's
seemingly getting later each year - and the 'dry' season when it's cooler
but when winds are more likely!) :-)

(We lived in Darwin just after the 'blow' that totally destroyed the town on
Christmas Eve.  After which I have no desire to go to sea on a 'recreational
liveaboard' vessel at that time of the year.  And almost every time that
I've been out on the reef during the southern winter months, the wind has
blown a hooley!)  :-)

During our late summer and early/late spring the conditions are usually just
perfect - except when the corals spawn!!!!  And then it gets messy!  :-))))

Strike