Dear Strike,


        Thank God we're going diving, or I'd just burst.  Now I imagine myself
saying, "An aluminum 80, I don't think so; give me one of those Faber
12.2s."  You can imagine what I'll have to see before the poor devil DM
gets his tip.

        In the future I'm going to try to be a little less provincial when
speaking to you, and there won't be another, "G'night, Strike," when you've
just finished lunch. In fact, I may even tell Tom, who does all the mowing,
that while I do know and talk to Australians on the phone, and they are 15
hours ahead of us; they still don't know how tomorrow's races will turn out
at Sportsman's Park.  This is going to be tough because from what Tom and
Randy say, I know they still thinks I'm privy to secret information,

        "And so the way we figure it is, if it's really 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in
Sydney, Australia, then they already know tonight who will win the daily
double at Sportsman's tomorrow because the results are announced at 2:25
p.m., right?"

        Thank you, Lord, for this dive trip.


DPTNST,


John


At 07:03 AM 9/10/00 +1000, you wrote:
>On Saturday, September 09, 2000 10:55 PM, Poe Lim wrote:
>
>> The forecast said strong Westerlies and South-westerlies; not one that
>like
>> a rough boat ride, but needing to re-test both Cynthia and my weighing due
>> to a change from the usual Al80 to steel Faber 12.2 (about a 100), we
>> decided to dive Shelly, and perhaps catch up with Strike (we didn't see
>him
>> this morning).
>
>Conditions were so good that we took ourselves off to Harbord and dived
>around the point.  Apart from several rays lying in the sand, easten blue
>groupers and several schools of sea-pike and yellowtails the most
>outstanding critter was a cat shark seemingly intent on eating an urchin.
>
>There are several swim-throughs and walls covered with sea-tulips.  (While
>the fish life - to my way of thinking - is less dramatic and varied than at
>Shelly, it's compensated for by the soft corals and an enormous variety of
>ascidians.)
>
>Visibility was deceptive.  From the surface it was possible to make out  the
>rock and sand lines but underwater it was hazy and 'gloomy' that reduced
>visibility to about 20-metres!  :-)
>
>Strike
>