Quirky thoughts from an old man.
After he retired Winston Churchill was cruising the Mediterranean on an Italian ship. When asked why he chose an Italian ship he replied: “There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship. First, their cuisine is unsurpassed. Second, their service is superb. And then, in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about women and children first.”
Photo is of a cruise ship in Ft Lauderdale, Florida
In April I went diving in Roatan, Honduras with the Codger Divers. We had a great trip with excellent camaraderie and very good diving. CoCo View was the first place the Codgers dove back in 2003. As far as I can tell the reef is still as healthy sixteen years later but there are less fish. The big changes are not climate change. They are Lion Fish, an invasive species from South Asia that eats all the reef fish and has no natural predators, and Cruise Ships, an invasive species from the First World that homogenizes the culture and destroys the ecosystem. Continue reading “Invasive Species”