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Tonight was another excellent Underground Texas
Grotto meeting. The feature presentation was by Liz Herren about
"Texas Cavers in Vietnam". When she showed the photos and videos
of riding an oar-rowed boat through one of the incredibly huge
caves, it reminded me of a 1985 story by humor writer Dave Barry
about touring the famous Blue Grotto in Italy. The article was originally published in the Sunday Magazine of the Miami Herald, which I subscribed to when I lived in Belize. It arrived just before an international group of cavers organized by Tom Miller gathered at my house for an expedition to the remote unexplored river caves of the Chiquibul River. Everyone had read the article, so as we paddled in inner tubes through kilometers of the deep slow-moving river in huge passage, (well, it was big, but nothing like the Vietnam caves), you could hear the echos of people yelling out "When you pudda you handa inna da wadda, you handa looka blue." Fortunately the Vietnam and Chiquibul trips were much calmer than Dave Barry's trip. You havta readda da article to understand. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-10-20-8503140182-story.html Enjoy, Lowgun |
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