Posted by Elaine on June 26, 2002 at 22:24:35:
In Reply to: Re: Postscript: posted by Steve on June 26, 2002 at 10:00:47:
I think that you have made a good point. Casino Point is the size of a postage stamp. I'm not sure how much the behavior of the marine life there is altered - the fish there are just very used to divers and some have very little fear of man.
If someone gave me a map and said draw a line of where you think "diving only" outght to be I'd probably start somewhere around Long Point and keep going to Arrow Point. That leaves some areas for "hunting and gathering" but it would also give a nice chunk just for "underwater appreciation" activities. I think that it is the places where fish etc. have to run from spear guns and evade the claws attached to game bags that are the most "unnatural". Cocos Island, for instance, is totally protected from human preditation. The marine life there seemed to have no oppinion about people other than that we were a different kind of fish that often blew bubbles, but, we were of no threat to them what so ever. That is what I like to think of as the natural order of things.