On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 16:39:58 -0400, Michael Doelle
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Bob wrote:
>
>> OVERALL BEST (dive) destination in North America as
>      British Columbia, Canada!<

I cited Rodale's mag on Readers choice.
>
>Interesting choice. R must have tons of readers on the West  coast. Don't
>really know enough sites in N. America to do a list, but BC is quite high
>on my personal list of destinations that I really liked.
>
>>I'll pause to give you a chance to clean the coffee off your monitor.<
>
>Why? Vancouver Island has truly beautiful diving.

British Columbia diving may be GOOD;  it may be VERY GOOD;  and it
may even be ONE of the BEST.  But to say that British Columbia is
THE BEST (that's numero uno;  one and only BEST) dive destination
in North America, and you don't find anything unusual about it?

If it were (the BEST), it must be the best kept secret in the annals
of Scuba Diving, even a better kept secret than where the pirates
hid their gold on Cocos Island!   ;-)

-- Bob.


>
>>>Inference:  a bunch of clueless raters just came back on a
>trip from Cozumel, most likely their FIRST, because hardly
>anyone dives the Palancar Horseshoe anymore, for several years.<<
>
>Probably true, that's why I was quite surprised to see BC up there. Maybe
>they all saw it on TV.
>
>>>     1. Outer Banks, N.C. (COM)
>     2/3.  California;  Islamorada, FL.<
>
>That one makes no sense at all. Outer banks seems to be a specific site,
>Cal is huge, Islamorada just a few keys in the chain of islands. It's like
>saying (hypothetically) #1 Burma Banks, #2 Australia. These lists are
>sometimesstill useful to me though, when used as list of top ten places I
>don't want to dive next year. I just hope Burma wasn't on it this year.
>
>md, db