In the early mornings, before the kids arrive for our environmental education programs, I like to survey the water for manatees, stingrays, alligators, dolphin, turtles, ospreys, and other interesting wildlife.
My reactions vary according to which animal I find. Some I love to see and watch with a sort of hypnotized adoration. Others evoke tinges of [...]
At some point, all animals leave home. Either they’re booted from their twig-mud beginnings or they free fall gracefully, allowing the floor to rush up beneath them and gasping at the final seconds when flight finds them. I’ve watched it happen.
I’m a roller coaster girl. Not a skydiver. I like my dances with death to [...]
I’ve always been a little leary of moray eels on dive trips. One of my most recent dives in West Palm Beach put us on a wreck in 50′ of water where lots of concrete tubes and piping had sunk to the floor. Soft corals were starting to take over, with macroalgae and corallines covering [...]
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