Dave:
I thought you might enjoy this, and may even want to share
it with others, especially those of us who like to hang out on the reefs
outside the marina or around Saltair. I ran across this yesterday while
reading Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness*. It brought back
vivid memories of my first encounter with tufa reef, and explains why every
subsequent bump and scrape has been a little nerve-wracking.
“… for a seaman, to scrape the bottom of the
thing that’s supposed to float all the time under his care is the
unpardonable sin. No one may know of it, but you never forget the thump –
eh? A blow on the very heart. You remember it, you dream of it, you
wake up at night and think of it – years after – and go hot and
cold all over.”
* When Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness in 1899,
he had 25 years experience at sea. He was writing about a trip up the
Regards,
Doug Koci
Douglas G. Koci, CFP® | Sr. Knowledge Engineer/PM | SunGard Protegent/Synapse
90 South 400 West,
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