[Rhodes22-list] Bill W: Blue hole

[elle]

Mike, 
It was most likely the same blue hole; the walls were
very high on the side where I was(where we jumped
from); they had removed the rope by the late 90's and
built a wooden deck to jump from.

We stayed at Forfar Field Station as after the death
of the guy who started it , it was turned into a study
center for marine bio & environmental studies
students. 

Small Hope Bay resort, if I remembr, is at the
entrance to Fresh creek, across from the Lighthouse
club & Resort. 

Did you hear/see the chickcharnies???

elle


--- "Michael D. Weisner" <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:

> Elle,
> 
> Nice photo!
> 
> I went to Andros in the early 80's, staying at Small
> Hope Bay (Dive Resort) 
> and went to a big blue hole.  I thought that the
> walls were much higher than 
> your photo shows.  Maybe it was simply due to the
> fact that I had to leave 
> my eyeglasses at the truck and jumped "blind".  I
> jumped from a rope that 
> swung over the water.  If you were a chicken and
> held on too long, there was 
> a good chance that you would hit the rock wall
> before sliding into the 
> water.  As I recall, it was extremely cold, clear
> and deep!
> 
> Mike
> s/v Shanghaid'd Summer ('81)
> 
> From: "elle" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> Tuesday,
> January 23, 2007 9:00 PM
> > Bill,
> >
> > You had a photo of a blue hole in your last
> > travelogue; here is a photo of a blue hole on
> Andros
> > Island....I believe this is the one named after
> > Jacques Cousteau after he filmed there.
> >
> > It is huge: way more than two football fields and
> then
> > some in diameter.
> >
> > After jumping in, one must climb up a rikety
> wooden
> > ladder attached to the rocks; the ladder is about
> 20
> > deg off vertical, so one is in effect climbing on
> > one's back.
> >
> > (How do I know this? You think I'm going to let a
> > bunch of Adv. Bio. HS seniors think I'm a
> chicken???
> > ...even tho I think I clucked as I leaped the 30'
> into
> > the abyss!)!
> >
> > elle
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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