Given the "crocodile hunter's" unfortunate demise, it occured to me that my own adventure factor just upped a notch........
Yes, I was in the ocean on a sandbar with hundreds of Stingrays. They are very fast little devils, they feel like you would imagine a dolphin would feel, quite smooth actually...... but their tail bit, (which they flick around as they race around for food) feels like velcro when it smacks you........
AND... it was my idea ....... Grand Cayman Islands, 2004..... The tour operators take a bunch of gullible tourists out to a sandbar, dump you out into the ocean, bring out a pail of squid, and BOOM...... all of a sudden the stingrays are all over the place, racing around, and bashing into your legs.......
Brave (????) people feed them, hold them up, take photos, etc.... Sadly, the truth of my adventurous nature rises to the top and the photo here pretty well shows what I thought of the whole thing.......I pretty much stood there and screamed every time one bashed into me, and then got the heck back into the boat and watched the festivities from a safe and reasonable distance....
The "Stingray Beer" (brewed in Grand Cayman) on the other hand, was very enjoyable!!!
5 comments:
Great story Jo!
Darryl
That's funny Joanne. There has to be a "nickname" for you in that story. I'll have to think on it. At least you got the cold beer!
P & G
I used to swim with them when I was young too, hon. Still do when I go to Florida or out heah on the beaches. Too bad it's the sharks I freak over.....:(
Glad you got the beer out of the deal! :)
How're you feeling now?
Hope
That must have been an adventure. Never will I swim with the stingrays. No it isn't going to happen. You know me I am totally brave but the stingrays are not on my list. You have the brave sticker. You win even the running. Yes you are the one that hates all those things and yet you are the bravest to try. I am terrified (really terrified). I would have needed more than beer. Maybe a case of beer. I don't even drink beer. Anyway great story. JT
Ooh my feet are wriggling just reading it. The beer appeals more than the rays.
I hope you'll be on your travels again soon.
What's the onc saying about the chemo? Any end in sight?
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