Saturday, April 25, 2009
In the Beginning...
Wow, where to start, image a hot summer day with no wind the temperature in the mid 80's. Three boys make a trek across town on their bikes to the beach, loaded down with different diving equipment and inflatable rafts. Up and over the inter-coastal bridge to the beach. The water looked like a lake. It was flat and blue. We knew nothing of clarity, currents, or anything come to think of it. So after inflating the rafts we journeyed offshore. The water color was aqua blue and as the depth increased it became dark, but then the water turned almost black, a dark dark blue. We wondered if a whale was under us?...
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None of us wanted to leave the security of our rafts, but I wasn't going to chicken out in front of my younger brothers so I rolled off the raft. As my eyes focused it was as if I was in a pool the visibility was so clear. As the bubbles rose all around me they revealed the true beauty of the reef below. From that day forward I knew the ocean was something special.
ReplyDeleteA few years later both me and my youngest brother got certified for scuba. We now lived in Homestead, just a short hop to the keys. For a few years we enjoyed diving in the keys, nothing deep just off the bridges and a few islands.
I left for the service for sometime but returned to South Florida in 1991.