Just agreeing with you in different words, avoiding the suggestion that us
Blackbeard's kind of people aren't picky or hard to please.

Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Blackbeards


>   Lee Bell wrote:
> >I suspect the difference is the reviewers too, but not because one group
is
> >less picky, less demanding or easier to please.  We just have different
> >priorities.  Blackbeards is like camping on the ocean.  To enjoy it most
you
> >have to be someone who prefers plain but good food to fancy, a couple of
> >draft beers to a glass of fine wine at the end of the day, living a week
of
> >your life in bare feet and shorts and above all, being close with a group
of
> >diverse individuals brought together by diving and available space.
There
> >ain't nothing luxurious about Blackbeards, but for those that like this
sort
> >of thing and want to save a few bucks, it's hard to beat.  Those that
want
> >catered service, gormet food and in suite TV and head, will have to look
> >elsewhere.
>
> Isn't that what I said?  It is what I meant. :)
>
> >There are a whole lot of Bahamas. Your opinion that other parts of the
> >Caribbean have better diving suggests you just haven't been to the
Bahamas
> >sites that you'd like as much..... some of the less visited parts of the
> >Bahamas
> >also have some very special diving.
>
> I can't speak for the Bahamas sites I haven't dived, but I have dived the
> sites visited by Blackbeards (and Aqua Cat), and I stand by my comment.

Nothing wrong with your comment, just the scope of your experience.  You
said you've seen better.  I said there's still better to see.  No conflict,
just added information.

> On the other hand, I have read that the sites by San Salvador are
wonderful
> and intend to get there some day.

I don't know much about San Salvador but I do seem to have heard a few nice
things about it too.  I'm in the process of buying a still larger boat for
Bahamas cruising and diving.  I'm going for a 31 foot hull (platform or bow
pulpit make it bigger), the largest boat my boatclub will accomodate.  It'll
have a generator (my present boat does not), air conditioning (my present
boat has AC but only when plugged in at a dock) and perhaps a watermaker.
Head, refrigerator and cooking facilities, which I have now, are a given.
At any rate, it's not real likely that I'll ever take another Bahamas
liveaboard.  Since I prefer land based diving in the Caymans and Cozumel,
I'm not real likely to be on a liveaboard anywhere again.  San Salvador,
however, is within range of the boat I have in mind if, of course, I have
the time.

Lee