Reinventing myself is fun. Today in my head I am an aquanaut. (no, not like Aquaman...orange and green are not my best colors...) More like a mental diver. Ummm still not right. Okay, like I am astrally projecting myself through the big crack that makes the Weeki Wachee Spring all bubbly and powerful and possible.
While trying to imagine what it is like to dive 178' down to the beginning of the huge cave system under US 19, I am almost drowning! In happy! I've been fortunate enough to have seen some great footage of some dives. It is mostly limestoney karsty stuff, very little in the way of fish or plants, and some very sharp edges and narrow spaces . Then when they get to the caves a whole new world opens up. Huge and mysterious. VERY deep. Dark. Unknown. These guys are like astronauts, only with the Wet Right Stuff. So brave, and careful, and calculating. And patient! the decompression takes hours of hanging around underwater. I get to meet some of them this coming week to get some question time in. I guess you'd say I am a lot like a remora, which is
any of eight species of marine fishes of the family Echeneidae (order Perciformes) noted for attaching themselves to, and riding about on, sharks, other large marine animals, and oceangoing ships.
The idea is to be able to show what that journey down to the caves might look like if you could see it from a cutaway.
And tomorrow morning, speaking of astronauts, is one of the last shuttle launches. Chris and I will be up trying to get it on camera and running around the street in our pajamas. Ok, he will be dressed. Hey! History!
Exploration is in my blood...note my son, Rocket Boy. Now he is Rocket Man. Sky, RM, is bodybuilding in Korea and learning lots about nutrition and poker. Chris Jr. just told me he will be taking a Martial Arts Instructor course for the Marines. I sleep well.....
And tomorrow, who will I be?
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