[meteorite-list] Apologies [OT]

From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Aug 2 11:30:11 2005
Message-ID: <159.562b3f04.3020eb3b_at_aol.com>

Hola Tracy & Norm,

Thanks to both of you for the warmhearted comments, public or not, as well
as for the charming addition to my vocabulary! There were 4.5 billion-year
old rocks on the table, of that photo, I'd like to point out.

Probably the best wildlife in addition to our own scrumptiously presumptuous
species glimpsed was a surprise in a rough surf with serial 2-3 meter high
waves at the low cast light of Sunrise. Soon to provide a good face-first
thrashing and force-feeding of seawater, one particularly high wave soon was to
break. Waterlogged, stinging eyes, tracked it with a necessary keen sense in
the final moments, to feed the vice of thrill-seeking anticipation when the
unexpected happened. An entire school of quite large fish (min. 30 cm to
nearly 50 cm long) was elevated effortlessly as they merrily swam along
unimpeded.

>From my vantage point, it was like looking into a huge walk-in aquarium
about to shatter. The wave progressed rapidly toward both shore and yours truly,
and the fish were smoothly elevated up the curved front wall of the wave by
what I can only describe as optical antigravity. As they approached the top
in the emotional two-second event, they simply disappeared in stride behind
the cusp at which time I gasped for a deep breath and made like a
bottom-burrowing sea scavenger Tracy suspects I am, to hang on to dear life. The low
frequency frictional blasts overhead as the wave broke were just background
thumps as I literally swallowed the unexpected sight I had just witnessed.

Saludos, Doug


En un mensaje con fecha 08/01/2005 9:31:53 PM Mexico Daylight Time,
nlehrman_at_nvbell.net escribe:
(I'm talking about the beach, and ocean, and food and
shells and butterflies and rocks---)
 
Received on Tue 02 Aug 2005 11:28:59 AM PDT