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water is disturbed by the vessel [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ploughing it up, or the wind blowing the tops off the waves in a rough sea. The water is delightfully clear and varies in shade (in the daytime) from a blue like that of the laundry tub to deepest indigo. Now I am curious to see really clear water as California and Southern climes claim. [[three short lines]] The joke is surely on me this trip for here I am, going through the so-called "danger zones", dressed, not in all my clothes plus the required life-preserver, but in my honorable pyjamas and the Lieutenant (Doctor) Bates' bathrobe. "What am I doing thus and so for?" you ask. Your own question is one that I would fain have some person of greater discernment than mine answer for me. For twice