On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 David Strike <[log in to unmask]> wrote in response
to John's yakka:

>>On Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:46 PM, John Hauer wrote:
>> Our trip continues. Thanks go out to Strike, Viv and Huw
>> for valuable input on Tassie diving. See some report on
>> www.divewell.org, if you'd like.
>
>G'Day, John!  It sounds as though Garry took care of you in Tassie. He
>keeps suggesting that I go down there for a dive - and I keep telling
>him not until they warm the water up by another ten degrees C.!  :-)

Too right! Brass monkeys conditions yet a beautiful place to dive ..
shudder .. my teeth are chattering just thinking about it :-)

>I imagine that both Vikki and yourself are now heading across to the
>other side of the island to meet up with Viv?  Have a great trip and
>look forward to hearing about your experiences over there!  :-)

Well they are probably still in either Darwin or Alice .. cant remember in
which order they were doing that part ... but they arrive tomorrow arvo
(Wed 4th) and are staying in Freo. I will go out to annoy them at
dinnertime.

The 5th they will be diving with Diving Ventures around Rottnest Island ..
and the 6th (weather-permitting) we will take off for Carnac Island to
snorkel with the sealions. It the weather is crap we will do something
local .. but fingers crossed the weather will hold. While you Sydneysiders
had around 23 degrees celcius yesterday we were 32!! Heaven knows what has
happened to our autumn season .. but this whole week its been in the
30's ... alas the weather forcaster sez it will drop to 24 on the day I
want to take John & Vicky out boating!! Typical .. when I can take the day
off the weather turns nasty!!

The next day they are back at the airport for their flight up to Carnarvon
(doing the Coral Bay, Exmouth & Monkey Mia tourist thing). When they fly
back down its a quick trip down to Dunsborough to dive on the Swan wreck ..
and, if they have any energy left after that they may make it to the
Margaret River area to check out our winneries :-) I was hoping they could
get a dive or snorkel under the Busselton Jetty .. but I think we their
time schedules that is pushing things unless they can get in a night dive
there.

Viv