Several years ago, Bill Steele and I did the Blue Grotto trip on the isle of Capri.
Dave Barry’s description is spot on for the people on the trip that think that sitting on their couch in front of the TV and watching nature shows is the extent of their outdoor adventure. Though on our trip, there weren’t as many boats, and most of them were hired by the cruise ships. There was one poor guy in a small boat who was *not* associated with the cruise ship operator and he was trying to get customers into his tiny boat that would take you into the sea cave, with very little luck, and a lot of Italian invective was hurled at him by the men operating the cruise ship boats. We were forewarned about the tips, not jumping into the water, not leaning over too far, etc., and instead of hearing the slogan about hands in the water, our boatmen sang while in the Blue Grotto. The sheer unorganized spectacle and cacophony of the event did not disappoint, it was a laugh a minute. Too funny! And the water really did look blue, and the grotto was lovely. Diana ************************************************** Diana R. Tomchick Professor Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry UT Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Rm. ND10.214A Dallas, TX 75390-8816 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (214) 645-6383 (phone) (214) 645-6353 (fax) On Jun 6, 2019, at 7:55 AM, PRESTON FORSYTHE <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Classic Lowgun!! Please Click on Original Message. Preston in Browder, KY On Thursday, June 6, 2019, 12:26:35 AM CDT, Logan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com<http://texascavers.com/> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers ________________________________ UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today.
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