And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Several thousand miles into the ocean, I went over the side to clear a drifting giil net fouling the rudder.
The water was as clear as water can be. The only point of reference was the boat itself. Otherwise, I was floating in space, not discerning if it be air or water.
Also, being in deep water, with only the boat or my hand as reference, but neither in view. I could not tell if the visibility was 200 feet or two. Surely there were marine organisms yet so few as to allow such great visibility.
I swam out from the boat to what I thought a hundred yards. At that distance the hull was in sharp definition. It was a very surreal experience.
That clear water is just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYou can see the sharks coming a mile away.
ReplyDeleteIs that Nandi, Fiji?
ReplyDeleteSeveral thousand miles into the ocean, I went over the side to clear a drifting giil net fouling the rudder.
ReplyDeleteThe water was as clear as water can be. The only point of reference was the boat itself. Otherwise, I was floating in space, not discerning if it be air or water.
Also, being in deep water, with only the boat or my hand as reference, but neither in view. I could not tell if the visibility was 200 feet or two. Surely there were marine organisms yet so few as to allow such great visibility.
I swam out from the boat to what I thought a hundred yards. At that distance the hull was in sharp definition. It was a very surreal experience.
New England waters aren't clear they have too many nutrients.
ReplyDeleteNo Chinese factory ships off the coasts of the Caribbean.
Things are not as they appear......
ReplyDeleteAquatic levitation.
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