Showing posts with label july. Show all posts
Showing posts with label july. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Strangest thing

NaBloPoMo asks, "What is the strangest thing you have ever seen in the water."

Didn't even have to think...by far the strangest thing I ever saw was a man with a harpoon.

Now, that isn't so strange, right?

Wrong.

Everything is relative. It was strange because of WHERE I was...in Maui, snorkeling, along with about twenty other tourists. This was not the open water, I was not encroaching on some secret fishing area, no, this was part of the "planned activity" for the group I was traveling with.

Happily snorkling along until I turn to see a harpoon. Until that moment, I probably couldn't be sure that I knew exactly what one looked like, but once I saw it...I knew.

Yep, that was a harpoon.



this is what he looked like, all protected and packing heat...
this is what I looked like, bikini clad and completely unaware of any creature large enough to justify a harpoon...



needless to say, my snorkeling adventure was cut short that day.

........I may sound all safe and aware, but actually, the next day in an attempt to see a giant sea turtle up close and personal, I went a bit too far....all's well obviously, but I gave my guides a bit of a headache that day.
I did meet a sea turtle though. I think he wanted to meet me too.