On Mar 20, 2:04 pm, wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:59:17 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Mar 18, 11:19 am, wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:21:26 GMT, (Richard

Casady) wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:34:26 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

I'll try fishing although I am a poor fisherman. Mostly, I like to
explore cool places. Suggestions?

If you want to explore cool places, take up caving. Caves are at the
annual average temperature, 55 F or so. Do not swim into flooded
caves. If you do, you will die in one sooner or later.

Froggy knows a lot more about caves than you do.

Hey! I guess you're done watching American Idol re-runs for awhile, eh?

???

I consider cave diving an elaborate form of suicide although I can
sure understand the desire to do it. Had a good friend who died cave
diving, he was 280' down breathing what was an experimental mix at
that time (1985) but is currently known as trinox. His suit inflated
carrying him very quickly to the top of a dome over 150' high. When
they got him back down, he was acting strangely and would not swim
through the serious constriction. They waited as long as they could
and then went for more air. When they got back, he was dead of
course. Autopsy later revealed brain embolism due to the rapid
ascent.
We actually do have dry caves in FL. There are large dry caves nearby
in South Georgia too.
Many people think thye are claustrophobic but I have never seen it in
a cave even in novices. Being a caver, I have no problem crawling
into my sailboat engine compartment and actually crawling under the
engine.
One thing caving has in common with sailing is the type of rope used.
Sailors want no stretch halyards and cavers want no stretch ropes.
When you are on the end of a 600' rope, stretchy bouncy rope will make
you sick. When I was really into vertical caving, climbing my halyard
was no biggie but I am now afraid of heights.
A few times I have been able to combine caving and boating by canoeing
into a cave entrance. A few caves here in Fl can only be reached from
canoe or kayak. My dream is to sail to that river in Guatemala that
has huge limestone cliffs where sailors use as a hurricane hole and
explore the caves in said cliffs.