the near death experience

ok, well, it wasn't really near-death. but it freaked me out pretty good. with all the publicity of steve irwin's death-by-stingray, it was quite a shock when i jumped in for a quick swim and first thing i see was a stingray scooting away from me. i jumped up pretty quick and back to shore. lynn had a good chuckle at me.

while in tasmania, we spent a couple days on the freycinet peninsula at coles bay. hiked over to see the infamous 'wineglass bay' ... named that not because it is shaped like a wineglass (though it is), but because there was a lot of whaling when the bay was discovered .... the water was coloured red from the blood. or, at least that's the (wives?) tale we were told.

Here are some pictures of us sea kayaking around coles bay.