Hey Paul,
Its the challenge. If it comes too easy it isn't worth collecting.
Paul K.
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From: Monfils, Paul <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: Landsnails - why not as popular?


> Gee, these guys who are extolling the pleasantries of marine collecting
must
> be divers!  No doubt accustomed to gliding silently and effortlessly over
> pristine reefs in pursuit of those glossy little egg-shaped things.
Haven't
> they ever slogged through ankle-deep mud, silt, and stinking decaying
> vegetation in search of Melongenas?  Or clambered over massive boulders
> coated with shifting slime-covered seaweed and razor-edged barnacles,
> fingers and ankles bleeding, for a handful of periwinkles?  Or allowed a
ten
> foot wave to fling them up onto an outcrop of exposed volcanic rock in
order
> to grab a shell before the next wave rips them loose?  I'll take a quiet
> walk in the New England woods picking up land snails any day :-)
> Paul M.