Posted by John Nichols on October 23, 2005 at 00:43:20 from 70.191.148.241 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Waving not drowning: Re Number 8 posted by Prue Eckett on October 22, 2005 at 23:38:40:
Prue:
I just remembered - I have a proposal into the National Science Foundation for developing a Seismic Research Station at one of the World's most active seismic spots. Aka the Kermadec Islands. (Robert: The KI are a beautiful geographer's dream.)
In the very far distant future if this Professor manages to separate the NSF from a few dollars then I will be visiting NZ, specifically Auckland enroute to the KI. Do you live near Auckland, if so we could organize something I suspect?
I remember as a youth reading a Sailing Novel about Children in NZ who sailed in small racing dinghys on a large sea bay? Any thoughts on the name of the books, I remember I enjoyed them.
It is terrible watching people be sea sick, the one thing that makes me gag. Everytime I read the story of Titty being ill in PD or was it WDMTGS? I get really queasy. Of course it is not pleasant being in a cabin where people are feeling sea sick. I always prefer to be on deck with the wind in my face.
But eating bacon and eggs in the middle of a cyclone is great fun as the plates slip and slide. OF course it is a lonely meal, not many people like it that rough.
As the Coast Guard people say : You can go out to sea, ain't nothing says you going to come back.
JMN