Saline Drip

Notebook: Dive Thoughts

1.    Scribble, scribble, Mr. Gibbon:
A box of saltines,
Two cans of sardines,
And a bottle of Irish:
I feel ready.

2.  Wearing the 20-pound weightbelt
three hours straight diving and paddling
may have been a mistake--I realized,
as the first muscle spasms started in my back,
40 minutes out from Moody's in Mendocino--
but every diver knows, whether weightbelt or tank,
it's lighter if you never take it off.

3.  Why do I keep putting
these clay pieces underwater?
I don't quite know,
but I do and I do.

4.  See photos.

5.  Maybe free diving wasn't such a good idea with this temporary crown in my mouth.

Asilomar: Tidepooling

Red Like a Rose

Frog-Man II

Frog-Man
Sculpted 2011 or earlier;
Photos August 2018.

Sculpture mix; glazed with transparent brown and (lightly, quickly) sea-foam.
(I was expecting more green from the sea-foam, but that was a misjudgment on my part.)

Mendocino: Current Favorite Shots

Swimming with Sofia

No handy kelp to anchor the boat to, so I just swam with her.