Tank birthday, 47+ years

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The Doctor was a thin older woman with long blond hair.

Maybe a Supermodel at one time?

 

[Paul B]

I don't care what she was at one time. But I get that tested as rarely as I feel necessary. :eek:

 

[85173]

Paul, the red fish you were probably catching with "Mary":cool: would most likely be Centroberyx Affinis, (Redfish is its common name here.) They are quite common offshore in the Sydney area. As to the location of your island, I am unsure as there are small islands and small reefs dotted all along the New South Wales coastline, many in the Sydney area.

At the time you were here, shark netting was a common practice along areas where humans are often in the water. Less common now as it was too detrimental to shark numbers. (They rely more on helicopters, drones, movement detector alarms and tagging/tracking of sharks now.) Of course, not all sharks are tagged with tracking devices though!;) As for the machine gunning, you can tell that was an official. Normal Aussie blokes doing a spot of illegal fishing then, would have used grenades. (Second World War leftovers.)

And watch out for that lady doctor Paul! She might have been trying to fit you with a tracking device. (They're not sure what your up to with all those short boat trips off the coast!)

Mick.

 

[Paul B]

Mick, in those days I was terrified of sharks like most people were. Now I swim with them and eat them. :p
She took me to a very small atoll I think as there wasn't much there that I remember but fifty years ago may as well have been 500 years ago. All I know is that I was in a jungle in Nam the day before so that was paradise. :D

Soon I will be trucking my boat to a marina close to my new home. I won't sail it there because it is kind of far by boat and with the price of gas and the fact that it goes 2 miles on a gallon, it would be cheaper to buy a new boat.
By car it is only 60 miles, but by boat it is closer to 100 miles because I have to go all the way around the north fork of Long Island which is probably 80 miles, then I have to go into Peconic bay all the way back about 20 miles.
Peconic is the water between the north and south forks of Long Island and a really pretty and large quiet bay probably 30 miles long but not to wide. Maybe a few miles at the end.
WE know some people with houses on the water there so we will have places to tie up and I will have to find restaurants and places to just hang out.
No more trips up the East River to the Statue of Liberty. :rolleyes:











This picture is off the new house we bought.

 

[andyg1960]

Beautiful view, Paul

 

[Mark Gray]

Nice shots Paul if you ever decide to go back to Nam go about this time of year not as hot still hot but not as hot. I think I will go over this year some time not sure when though.

Good Luck with the move I hate to move a lot of work but usally great after your done Good luck again

 

[Paul B]

Mark I will not be going back there thank you very much. :cool:

I wouldn't recognize any place I was at anyway because I was never in a city or even village except **** Vinh for a while and nothing there I want to see.
Not a lot of good memory's I want to remember. :confused:

WE only moved once and have been here almost 40 years. My biggest problem is that I have so many hobbies that I have tools for and materials piled up in my workshop and garage. Boating stuff is big as are wood working tools. Pipes, wood, electrical stuff galore, etc.
In other lives I was a mechanic, plumber and electrician and have all the tools for those trades including car ramps, jacks welding torches so moving will give me the horrors. I gave away all my SCUBA stuff so I don't have to worry about that.

I am going to ask our cleaning girl to help us. We hired her for one day a week because my wife has MS and is a cleaning fanatic so she comes for 2 hours once a week to help. She can help unpack and put dishes away. Hopefully our Daughter can also help, but I think we will get it done faster without her. :cool:

WE are going to the Island of Mystique soon and hopefully I can get a dive in. Now I have such a screwed up back I am not sure I can dive. But if nothing else, I will sink to the bottom and walk around. :D

 

[Sea MunnKey]

Actually, no. But when I got back to Nam she sent me a nice package of food, candy and cookies. A very nice girl and if I ever get back there (not likely) I would like to look her up. She was 24 and I was 20.
She took me to a bar called "Texas Tavern". I asked her what she would like to drink and she said "A Harvey Wallbanger". In 1970 I never heard of that drink and I figured it was a joke and they were all going to laugh at me. But of course there is a Harvey Wallbanger and it has become one of my favorite drinks :p

Paul ... you could try searching for Christine via Facebook (that is if you remembered her last name). We found a lot of old friends from way back eg. elementary & high school buddies. Mind you the old friend(s) would definitely look very different and almost unrecognizable

 

[Paul B]

Normal Aussie blokes doing a spot of illegal fishing then, would have used grenades. (Second World War leftovers.)

We used grenades in Nam to clear swimming holes before we swam in them to kill snakes, tigers and Godzilla Larvae.
WE had so many grenades and other ammo and we moved so much that we needed to use that stuff up as we didn't want to carry it to the next LZ.
I am talking tons of artillery. :cool:

Kevin, I am curious as to what I will find under my UG filter. I am missing an eel, that clingfish and 2 pistol shrimp which may be under there. There is plenty of worms under there because I can see them with a flashlight. The eel I caught locally and never saw him so he may be there. Of course there may be 5' bristle worms also. :eek:

 

[Chasmodes]

Yeah, who knows what lives beneath! (Sounds like a line from a horror movie preview) :D

 

[SpartaReef]

Yeah, who knows what lives beneath! (Sounds like a line from a horror movie preview) :D

It is...

 

[Chasmodes]

It is...

I think we have a title to the new movie!!!

 

[norfolkgarden]

Mark I will not be going back there thank you very much. :cool:

I wouldn't recognize any place I was at anyway because I was never in a city or even village except **** Vinh for a while and nothing there I want to see.
Not a lot of good memory's I want to remember. :confused:

WE only moved once and have been here almost 40 years. My biggest problem is that I have so many hobbies that I have tools for and materials piled up in my workshop and garage. Boating stuff is big as are wood working tools. Pipes, wood, electrical stuff galore, etc.
In other lives I was a mechanic, plumber and electrician and have all the tools for those trades including car ramps, jacks welding torches so moving will give me the horrors. I gave away all my SCUBA stuff so I don't have to worry about that.

I am going to ask our cleaning girl to help us. We hired her for one day a week because my wife has MS and is a cleaning fanatic so she comes for 2 hours once a week to help. She can help unpack and put dishes away. Hopefully our Daughter can also help, but I think we will get it done faster without her. :cool:

WE are going to the Island of Mystique soon and hopefully I can get a dive in. Now I have such a screwed up back I am not sure I can dive. But if nothing else, I will sink to the bottom and walk around. :D

I'm guessing a boat dive. Also guessing one of those smancy BCs with integrated weights.

If they will let you, hop in the water in your suit, they inflate the BC and toss (lol, gently set it) it in next to you.
Float the BC upside down in front of you with the tank valve facing you. Deflate it just enough to work with it but not lose it underwater. (If you're having a hard time picturing this now is probably a good time to put the regulator in your mouth).
Stick your arms through the arm holes and grab the tank, then dunk down and flip it over your head to put it on.
, Gentle kick to stay on the surface so you don't freak out the dive boat crew too much while you adjust everything and synch the straps.
Mostly deflated at this point is easier. Just don't sink until you give the boat crew an OK hand signal.

There is nothing easier bad back wise. Very unorthodox and hard to picture, but works great.

Gently stretching underwater in 3D is the ultimate.

Lol, it's like a hot tub, the effect doesn't last, but you'll enjoy it while it does,

Take it off in the water the same way and let the dive guide hand it up.

Take pictures!

Of the fish!

 

[Paul B]

Thanks Norfolkgarden. My back had these micro fractures from heavy lifting all my life and since I am not exactly 20 any more, it is a little hard to do any twisting. But I have almost 300 dives so my body will just have to figure it out, or drown. :eek:
I think if I just fall backward off the boat I will be fine.
I can't dive here in NY any more because I use 37lbs of weights and I am not sure that would work any more. :D
In the Caribbean with 6 or 7 lbs I think I can still do it. Maybe I will hold on to my Daughter. :cool:

 

[dricc]

I went to a Doctor today with my wife because she needed some tests done and I needed a Doctor to fill out my papers to renew my Coast Guard Captains License.

The doctor was in my Union Hall.
So we get there and they call me to see the doctor. The Doctor was a thin older woman with long blond hair. She was very nice and we talked a while and she asked about all the diseases that I don't have and never want. I am pretty healthy.
So after a while she hands me this small paper "gown" which looked more like a see through napkin and tells me to take off all my clothes. I said, wait a minute, I just would like you to fill out these medical forms, and besides, I just met you.
She said, I can't fill out the forms until I examine you.

So I figured she wanted to listen to my heart, blood pressure, lungs and all that.
So I am laying on the examining bed thing wearing this piece of paper and I see her lift her skinny arms up in the air while she put on these blue examining gloves.

I said, Wait a minute! "what do you need those for?"

As she walked over to me she lifted the napkin I was wearing and said, "Don't you want me to test your prostate? ". Like, "NO"!!!! I really don't. Most parts of me function fine and that is one of them.

She said, "It's really no problem". I said for you maybe, I just had that done last Tuesday thank you very much.

She did "need" to examine "other " parts of me and I couldn't wait to get out of there as I never had a woman doctor need to examine me so thoroughly, especially to fill out a form.

So I ran, I mean, I got out of there and took my wife for lunch.

Uh oh sounds like a Paul B "Me too" story.Are you sure she wasn't a hollywood director trying to "cast" you in a movie?

 

[85173]

Mick's Top Tips for what Paul will find under his reverse undergravel filter.

The lost city of Atlantis

Captain Nemo and the Nautilus

Davey Jones' locker

A living Megalodon:eek:

But most likely, the secrets to successful reef keeping!;)

 

[Zack K]

Mick's Top Tips for what Paul will find under his reverse undergravel filter.

The lost city of Atlantis

Captain Nemo and the Nautilus

Davey Jones' locker

A living Megalodon:eek:

But most likely, the secrets to successful reef keeping!;)

Add a clingfish, and Godzilla protecting the larvae.

 

[Chasmodes]

Lost keys, the TV remote, a few halves of pairs of missing unmatched socks...

 

[Paul B]

Uh oh sounds like a Paul B "Me too" story.Are you sure she wasn't a hollywood director trying to "cast" you in a movie?

I am not sure what she wanted, but I am glad to be out of there. :eek:

I lifted up my undergravel I think twice since I installed it and once was probably 15 years ago, but I don't remember. There were tube worms filling the entire thing which is probably a good thing and they are probably living on the clam juice that I dump in there almost every day which comes from the thin pieces of clam that I feed. I am going to miss those things after I move because they take a few years to grow. :p
If I remember, I will take some pictures.

 

[locito277]

Add a clingfish, and Godzilla protecting the larvae.

Can we package the secret and sell it with Marc Weiss products :)