Log/Pic 98 Utilla, Honduras

Flying to the little bay island of Utilla from the main land Honduras.

Above is my back porch.

Below is the view from the front.

Our whale-shark shaped pool

Thiery from France, Liz from Venezuela, me and lisa...from the USA

Our cool dive shop

Keeping away boredom when the boat broke down...sound familiar?

Visiting the fishing village a few islands over.

This family lived alone under a boat on the adjacent abandoned island.

A fisherman feeding the birds

Our first week's dive buddies: Doug, Josephina, Juju, Mark, Barbara, Lisa, me, Victoria

Alien Bubbles

electric eel

Gigundous octopus

stingray

my favorite-seahorse

a ramora tries to suck onto me; the hair turns him off

atoad fish-my first

a lionfish-speared

bonding with squid again-we say them mate!

underwater reflections

Halli Burton Shipwreck

Last day, couldn't dive, so kayaked

Log/Pic 97 Venice, book sign, and Blue Ridge Pkwy.

So I went to Venice, FL to hunt for some more fossils. Above it what a shark tooth looks like underwater before I scoop it up.

Here is me with one of the 200 plus fossilized teeth I found this year. Note the poor visibility-characteristic to Florida's west coast. Although I find so many teeth, only on one of these dives in the last 20 years have I ever seen a shark-and it was three of them...and they were bull sharks!

This is a frog fish. Apparently it is rare. I was just as shocked to find a small sea-horse on a dive out here years back-who knew?

This summer I had a second book signing. This was in NC. Here I am signing my book to donate to the local library. Below I am presenting to the librarian. My uncle and aunt are to my right.

Below I am showing the illustration from the chapter I am about to read.

Me reading a passage from chapter "K"

Answering questions

Signing books

Answering questions from the reporter.

I also drove back through the Smoky and blue Ridge Mountains. I started at Tallulah Gorge, a place I had climbed 18 years earlier with Dan from Dunwoody (GA).

Looking for Boo Boo

Awesome ridges...of blue

Atop one of the peeks

Lisa atop...the top (of the Blue Ridge Parkway).

Log/ Pic 96 Amish Country and Book Signing

So this summer started with a past-due visit to the Amish Country of Pennsylvania.

Animal labor

Below was the first sight we saw when pulling into the area.

Beautiful farms

Horse-drawn buggies...

I want on.

Good-ol' Abe

Always working.

So I did my first book signing.

Edison State College..my first

Note the food above-that's how they got me there.

My interview

"but you just HAVE to buy a book"