Hi Pamela:
 
I am sure we can help you.  We both SCUBA dive and snorkel.  Our favorite place is the
Bahamas.   We rent a house in the Abacos every year and take our shell club to
Eleuthera twice a year.
 
Bring on the questions.
 
Olstad wrote:
 
> Hello shell nuts,
>         Due to some really fun physical adventures, I have been away from the
> conch list and just about everything.  I really enjoy the lists and learn
> alot.  Last year when I was in the thin of it, I met a bunch of really
> interesting people and was just amazed with their stories. (Hans write me)
> How amazing this world is for us all to talk and share.
>         I have been waiting for just the right time to send this out, so as to not
> be out of subject.  So now seems to be a good time (soup madness - no
> offense intended)
>
> I am looking for some pen pals, direct to me, not through the list, because
> the stage I am at is like super beginner and re-dundent.
> Please respond to me if you want to talk about this, it would  help me out
> greatly:
> 1.      I am new to skin diving (and I am no spring chicken)
> I have like 1,0000 questions, fears, phobias, excitements
> 2.      Abaco Islands - sailing, diving, snorkling and shelling -  any and all
>
> I really do not know if I plan on killing the shells (I have so many
> already)  I am interesting in seeing them crawl around and marvel at their
> beautiful bodies, like some of the pictures I bought at the Sanibell Conch
> meeting.
>
> Thanks and looking forward,  Pamela
 
 
 
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Jim & Bobbi Cordy
Specializing in Self-Collected
Caribbean & Florida Shells