Time Travel IS Possible...

After looking at your picture, I believe you.

 

What's that little spot on the horizon, slightly left of center?
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_H*

 

Hmmmm. :huh:
“. . . drifting along amidst lazy strokes, bobbing gently between waves . . .â€
Sounds like The Squid has found his way home.

BUT! While drifting and bobbing between waves, keep an eye out for Dogfish and Hammerhead sharks. THEY EAT SQUID!
http://graysreef.noaa.gov/tw/sharks.html

Having seen my fair share of sharks while scuba diving, I know I do not wish to be caught on the surface drifting and bobbing like a seal.

For the longest time, as a joke, and also as a form of relaxation and meditation, I use to do something I called “de-evolving.â€
After scuba diving, if the surf was relatively small, I would lay there in my wetsuit and mask, parallel to the waves, and allow them to roll me around . . . up on the beach and back into the water. This was my attempt to reverse our evolutionary history and head back into the seas. :lol:
As a challenge to myself, I would not allow myself to move a muscle. If my head happened to be down in the sand or water, I'd just have to hold my breath. I became very adapt – breath control is an important skill for scuba diving.
Every once in awhile I would hear someone say, “is he OK?†To which a family member or friend would inevitably say, “the jury is still out on that,†or, “he's never really been OK since the accident.â€
One time a guy came up and tapped me on the head.
I looked up and said, “WHAT?â€
He didn't say anything. He just pointed with what didn't look like a very high angle toward the ocean.
I turned and looked, and there, not more than 50 feet away was a shark fin bobbing in and out of the water.
Needless to say, that was my last time tried reversing the natural evolutionary processes.
Unbeknownst to me, Tomalas Bay and the Point Reyes National Seashore (North of San Francisco) are a major shark breeding ground and nursery.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...0/01/nature.DTL

I still scuba, surf, and play in the ocean, but there is no way I will ever portray myself as shark food again.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hobbit @ Jul 8 2006, 12:03 AM) [snapback]282919[/snapback]</div>

Cuba

 

mmm, pretty sunset. send me the plans for the time machine, will ya? :lol:

i am home :wub:... but i gotta leave again tomorrow

 

You do it almost every day? Heck, I time-travel every day, though I don't take pictures. Yep, I travel through 24 hours of time every day. So does everyone else.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hobbit @ Jul 8 2006, 03:03 AM) [snapback]282919[/snapback]</div>

It's Mystery Squid's alien spaceship. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jul 8 2006, 12:26 AM) [snapback]282922[/snapback]</div>

Every once in a while our local newspaper will run an air photo of a pod of underwater sharks nearby to a pod of swimmwers. True Tomales bay is breeding ground to great whites, but they don't seem to attack in the bay, only the ocean. I kayak on Tomales Bay regularily and the sharks are longer than my kayak. It's a little disconcerting to see them glide under the kayak, but they never bother us. However, having been bumped while swimming in the ocean, I now am very leary. The 'bump' pushed me at least 10 feet.

 

You need to stop using the Timothy Leary travel agency. :blink:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(grasshopper @ Jul 8 2006, 08:16 AM) [snapback]282980[/snapback]</div>

Very very funny! Last time I saw Timothy Leary he was on top of 'the bus' (but no, not the original) at the Hog Farm Pignik and he was saying "my mind is going, my mind is going..." It was quite a touching day with many of the psychadelic heavy hitters paying last respects to Leary. He died shortly after.

OKOK I meant leery.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jul 8 2006, 12:26 AM) [snapback]282922[/snapback]</div>

When I was at the Great Barrier Reef (snorkeling) our guide told us that only three percent of species of sharks ever attack people. I saw a shark about 3 times. Whether it was always the same one, or different ones I don't know, but the guide told us that the sharks we were seeing were among the 97% that never attack people. So I didn't let it interfere with my snorkeling. It was a bit spooky, though. Each time I saw it, the shark was gliding along the bottom, some 15 or 20 meters below me, I would guess.

The fishes were amazing. Most of the people on the boat were divers. Only half a dozen or so were snorkelers. Our guide told us that the snorkelers actually got closer to the fishes than the divers did, because the bubbles scare them, and he encouraged the divers to do a bit of snorkeling between whiles, as they had plenty of time between their permitted three dives per day. Only one or two ever took his advice.

The divers' bubbles got really big towards the surface, and made a cool "glug-glug" sound when I grabbed them. (The bubbles, that is. Not the divers. There were some divers I'd have liked to grab, but I'm too shy.)

 

Beautiful Sunset Squid, you almost sound a little romantic there. Found yourself a nice little Florida honey?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Jul 8 2006, 12:04 PM) [snapback]283012[/snapback]</div>

This is why God invented swimming pools and aquariums.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MarinJohn @ Jul 8 2006, 12:02 PM) [snapback]282988[/snapback]</div>

Oh yea, I meant Leery. Sorry, too many trips.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 8 2006, 12:35 PM) [snapback]283054[/snapback]</div>

Aquariums are pretty, and swimming pools are great for exercise, but there's no substitute for swimming around a reef in warm tropical waters.

Anyone who's ever gone on safari in Africa will tell you that seeing animals in a zoo or circus is nothing whatsoever like the experience of seeing animals in their own habitat. Well, swimming among the fishes on a coral reef in the ocean is nothing whatsoever like seeing them in an aquarium, even if it's one of those big walk-through ones.

 

Nice sunset but how bout some winning lotto numbers next time you're traveling?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jul 8 2006, 03:26 AM) [snapback]282922[/snapback]</div>

If you're in the ocean you're still on the menu.