The Indians
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 4 Jan 2010 21:16
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The
Indians
  Beds holding Bernie
tightly as he holds said horror. Jump wrestling with
flippers.
We had promised Bernie that the
disposal of his neck, bell, collar thingy would be somewhere special. He has
waited patiently since August and this was the day. I got in first as I knew it
would feel cold, once in though and soon as you concentrate on the sights, cold
soon forgotten. The Indians are volcanic rocks that stick up out of twenty five
metres of water just north of Norman Island. They are without doubt worth
waiting for a visiting buoy to become free (no anchoring - National Park). We
could have come here early the next morning but as we were passing we saw a
yacht just about to leave a buoy.
 First thing I did was to let the bell
collar go, the swell took it so I placed it in a groove on a
yellow coral, bad move it bit the ends of my fingers like many red ant
bites. Suffering once again for art.
  Undeterred off to explore. These may
not look too impressive but that is the sea bed all those
feet down in this cristal clear water.
           The Lesser
Striped Wrasse and ready to climb out about twenty
feet from me. Just as Bear had swum to the dive buoys for a breather a
man approached him to ask if he was "from Sutton Harbour in Plymouth". The man
owns Elmo and recognised Beez Neez. He was on a charter boat for some winter sun
and wished Bear well. Is it a small world or what ???
 I returned to the scene and found the
collar had a final resting place with an onlooker.
Sadly as I turned to leave I caught my rear end on the said yellow plume of
coral and it gave me the equivalent of a hundred ant stings. Still suffering for
my art, but at least it makes a real story for Bernie and the ever faithful
Beds.
  This brain
coral is about the size of a huge balloon, down in about thirty feet of
water. In the Marine Pet Shops in the UK a piece the size of a tangerine is
about £80. Here it is fully protected - no cyanide spray carrying reef thieves
in sight. My welts later proved more than exquisitely
painful, hydrocortisone cream helped a bit but a few Painkillers worked very
well. After the swelling went down I am left with what looks like an old
bruise.
ALL IN ALL WOULDN'T HAVE
MISSED IT FOR THE WORLD AND TO SEE BERNIE'S
FACE...........
A STUNNING EXPERIENCE
AMAZING
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