[Rhodes22-list] Bill W: Blue hole

[Michael D. Weisner]

Elle,

Nice photo!

I went to Andros in the early 80's, staying at Small Hope Bay (Dive Resort) 
and went to a big blue hole.  I thought that the walls were much higher than 
your photo shows.  Maybe it was simply due to the fact that I had to leave 
my eyeglasses at the truck and jumped "blind".  I jumped from a rope that 
swung over the water.  If you were a chicken and held on too long, there was 
a good chance that you would hit the rock wall before sliding into the 
water.  As I recall, it was extremely cold, clear and deep!

Mike
s/v Shanghaid'd Summer ('81)

From: "elle" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:00 PM
> Bill,
>
> You had a photo of a blue hole in your last
> travelogue; here is a photo of a blue hole on Andros
> Island....I believe this is the one named after
> Jacques Cousteau after he filmed there.
>
> It is huge: way more than two football fields and then
> some in diameter.
>
> After jumping in, one must climb up a rikety wooden
> ladder attached to the rocks; the ladder is about 20
> deg off vertical, so one is in effect climbing on
> one's back.
>
> (How do I know this? You think I'm going to let a
> bunch of Adv. Bio. HS seniors think I'm a chicken???
> ...even tho I think I clucked as I leaped the 30' into
> the abyss!)!
>
> elle
>
>
>
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