I'm going to Gilboa!

[JohnF]

We've always got room for another. We'll be over by the plane dock. Watch for a black Olds minivan with Ontario plates. Probably be a red BMW bike nearby.

JohnF

 

[G-lock]

Seacur once bubbled...
We've always got room for another. We'll be over by the plane dock. Watch for a black Olds minivan with Ontario plates. Probably be a red BMW bike nearby.

JohnF

Thanx for the invite, maybe next time! Let me know when your coming down to Gilboa. Jeff

 

[JohnF]

We got home from Gilboa last night. Boogie711 survived ... both diving Gilboa and hanging out with rec.scubans. 8)

One would never guess he was a neophyte diver judging by his comfort level. As one of the Indy guys said about him "He looks like an otter shelling an abalone." This was after watching him walk into the water, then don his fins whilst floating on his back with his feet in the air.

One small problem though. He is a tad peculiar about keeping his prescription lens mask safely parked. The five of us really enjoyed the 10 minutes or so we spent, already geared up, helping him tear apart the campsite looking for the durned thing. Finally I finally found it ... hanging around his scrawny neck. There was some discussion about changing his nick to Booger at that point.

But we took a vote at the end of the day and decided that he would be allowed to return. I guess he didn't quite believe us though, cuz he snuck off with my little Halcyon wing. Mebbe he plans to blackmail me into taking him back to Gilboa.

When he's done with the reading material I sent home with him he may be ready to quit diving. We'll see. The Last Dive & Deep Descent are hardly encouraging reading for the neophyte diver. That's the last stage in his trial by scubafire. He survived the Gilboa rec.scubans and Wagner's Sonic Cannon, the 42 degree temps at the Tubes, being inadvertently abandoned by his dive buddy (me), and the campfire culinary efforts of Wagner & Simms. Let's see if the horror stories get him. I'm betting he won't surrender the Halcyon willingly. 8)

JohnF

 

[Boogie711]

I don't know what you did to Boogie, but he's kneeling in a corner, rocking back and forth and shivering uncontrollably. He keeps muttering something about "He'll never get his wing back alive..."

I don't know what you've done to him, but you should feel shame. I asked him where I left my stainless steel spatula, and he shrieked something about dead people and ran away screaming, holding his hands over his ears and wailing about "Fire in the Hole!"

I'm worried about him.

For what it's worth, before the tremors started, he did mention something about how neat a facility it was, and how not only the people he was with were very friendly, but how the entire atmosphere was very safe and diver-friendly. I don't know - sounds like some sort of 'diver commune' to me.

 

[wb416]

Boogie711 once bubbled...


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For what it's worth, before the tremors started, he did mention something about how neat a facility it was, and how not only the people he was with were very friendly, but how the entire atmosphere was very safe and diver-friendly. I don't know - sounds like some sort of 'diver commune' to me.

Just caught this thread, so I'm sorry I missed you guys to say hi.

As to the 'diver commune'... the place was packed with people from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia {...sorry... just working on my alliteration ....peter piper picked a peck of... }

bob

 

[JohnF]

To Boogie's wife:
Please assure the little feller that the red stuff was just plain Koolaid, and the thundering explosions weren't the ATF guys attacking, just Wagner's Sonic Cannon toy. Tell him to use some common sense. He's met the people. What self-respecting cult would have them.

JF

 

[Ber Rabbit]

wb416 once bubbled...


As to the 'diver commune'... the place was packed with people from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia {...sorry... just working on my alliteration ....peter piper picked a peck of... }

bob

Put your hand in front of your face when ya do that would ya! (Ber wipes WB's spit off of her face)

Wish I could have been there

 

[Barracuda2]

Still need a dive buddy/s for Gilboa Mon's. thru thurs's. - PM me if you can make it during the week - it's really great without the crowds.

Barracuda2

 

[wb416]

Ber Rabbit once bubbled...


Put your hand in front of your face when ya do that would ya! (Ber wipes WB's spit off of her face)

Wish I could have been there

Uhhhhhhhh.... sorry.... {sheepish grin}