Posted by seahunt on February 09, 2001 at 11:07:29:
I'm always trying to describe diving and why it is so fun. I always
try to put that special experience in words. Why? I dunno. I write so
that I better keep the experience and also to remind others of their
own special experiences like it or just enjoy mine. Maybe it is
that I always try to capture that special experience of diving... and
of course, it is one of the hardest thing to capture in words.
Anyway , I had a thought. Have you ever gone rock running. You can
do it in the mountains of CA wherever it gets rocky like Vasquez rocks.
You just run along the broken terrain. You cannot see your path. You make
it up as you go along. Skiing is that way. I've done it running along the
trails in the forest of Patricks Point and in a 4 wheel Honda Oddysey at
high speed on the trails of Pismo. Whatever or wherever, it is fun because
it is sort of like flying as a new horizon appears every 50 or 100 feet
and you absorb and respond to what appears... It also has its dangers, but that's OK.
The point of this is that diving can be that way, Swiming through
rocks, riding the surge. You fly through a split in the reef turning
around rocks and under kelp. The crack runs out and you soar up a wall
of the reef and over to the next trail. Every new horizon that appears
out of the green may hold something different, exotic and beautiful. The
best is swimming and pulling along a shelf at Talcott or the vast flats
off the west end of Nic. It is the essence of exploring as a CA diver.
Enjoy the diving, seahunt
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... Hey Chris, it sounds like you sure have sure gotten to see some
special stuff on your recent dives, but don't play with them torpedo's...
I've only even seen a handful of them.