Cluin: That's true about the dolphins, but I saw a malamute who had trained a woman in a fur coat and high heels to pick up its own feces after him!! My brother refused the same efforts by his retriever, based on his logical conclusion that if the aliens arrive and see humans doing that, "who do you think they'll sign the Treaty with?"


I had the same adventure as yourn, Amos, except that the kayak was a 12' aluminum cartopper, the chop was higher than the gunwhale, and the dolphins were killer whales surfacing on all sides. I felt alive that day!

"To any meditative Magian rover, this serene Pacific, once beheld, must ever after be the sea of his adoption. It rolls the midmost waters of the world, the Indian ocean and Atlantic being but its arms. . . . Thus this mysterious, divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one bay to it; seems the tide-beating heart of earth."

Ishmael at p. 478.