Yes, I have been snorkeling at Discovery Cove in Florida. I also got to swim with a dolphin named Lester. Where I snorkeled was a "cove" that was manmade with HUGE HUGE HUGE 'rays' and fish. At one point something slimy slid right in between my legs, so I pitched my body to the side!
I was also scared at first to go into the cove, but then I was fine once we put on provided life vests.
Also, I haven't been on here in a couple weeks, and I LOVE the updates you did to the website.
The only time I've gone snorkelling out in the actual ocean, I went with a friend out to the most GORGEOUS island. The water was CRYSTAL. Could see for aaages underwater. Then while I was happily snorkelling along I realised that what I thought was a rock, directly below me - and the water was only about as deep as I am tall - was actually a sting ray. I managed to swim off without being brutally slaughtered, but I was quite nervous the rest of the day!
I really enjoyed your comic, I used to frequent TWC a lot but stopped for about a year. I was catching up on some old favorites when I saw Chapel dressed as the TARDIS (I've been a fan of DR.WHO since the third doctor, no age jokes please). Keep up the great work, I'll be voting for you.
I can relate to your panic with the snorkel -- and I learned to swim in the ocean. But the first time you take a breath underwater is a little freaky. But once you're OK with it, you will experience a whole new world.
I got to go snorkeling in Hawaii in December.....I loved It! However, one time we were snorkeling off a boat, and when I went out a second time, I wondered why it felt so different....harder.....I forget to put on my float vest that the captain insisted we wear! Oops! However, every time I snorkel, I feel so proud of myself that I conquered my fear of the ocean for at least a little while! (by the way, my friend refused to go into the water! So feel better! It IS scary!)
I like this one, but I like all of the comics!!!! Anyway, I have been snorkeling before, but I was younger and the guide let me hang onto a life ring that was attached to a rope, and he pulled me along because I was a bit scared. It was really fun, though!!!!
Hmm...well, I had a book I was working on in 4th grade where there was a character called Berlin. When I was writing Berlin's backstory, I decided she should have a sister called Chapel (I only picked that name because I thought it went well with "Berlin.") I later decided not to include the character though! When I started drawing Chapel, I wanted to pick a name for her, and the name "Chapel Smith" sprung to mind. The current Chapel and the old sister-character aren't the same person, they just share a name.
I can relate to that experience! It took me a while to get used to that in the ocean as well, and I'm a very good swimmer, even. What scared me the most was once I did venture out into deeper water I came across a barracuda. I know it wasn't as big as it looked at the time, but I swear it felt like it was almost as big as me, and it wasn't the least bit scared of me, either. I reminded myself that they never attack people, and eventually the fear went away when the fish just swam along and didn't do anything except watch me. After that I learned that they often follow swimmers and snorkelers because we sometimes flush smaller fish out for them to catch.
Wow, that DOES sound really scary! I'm a good swimmer as well, but I'm much more used to swimming pools instead of the open ocean. I didn't know that barracudas don't attack people! Do you go snorkeling often?
I've only been in the ocean a few times. I live in Michigan, so I've been in the Great Lakes more times than I'd even dream of trying to count, but swimming in the ocean is very different. I've been spoiled by the huge bodies of fresh water I grew up with, and much prefer the Great Lakes to the ocean, to tell the truth.
ha ha! No, I have never been scuba diving or snorkeling before... oh, nobody has answered my riddle yet!! Please! take a guess!!!! :D ( look in previous comment zone for it)
I'm not going to answer the riddle because I suck at them. Anyway, that's a shame you've never been snorkeling! I've never been scuba diving, but my friend has her scuba diving license!
The answer to your riddle is that it's describing a game of Monopoly. The car is one of the standard playing pieces, landing on a street whose owner has upgraded it to a hotel. The woman - whose piece is the car - screams as she has to pay the man - the owner of the hotel - a high 'rent'. Mayfair and Park Lane are the two streets with the highest 'rents', hence my comment on the previous page.
Never been...but it sounds fun!
ALSO one of my fave strips EVAR! Love it it's so CUTEEEEE especially the last panel
If I seen hyper to you it's because today is Reaping Day and I'm seeing THG in less than two hours so I'm DYYYYYIIIINNNGGGG
I'm not going to be able to see it for a few weeks so if we could NOT talk about the movie much, that'd be great! Also I'm REALLY glad you like this strip!
i never get worked up about book to movie adaptions. once you read the books, the movies rarely if ever compare to where they came from. (grumbles about the harry potter movie butcher jobs)
Actually, I think that a lot of the Harry Potter movies didn't have too much excessive choppage - but Order of the Phoenix was utterly first degree book murder.
Yeah! I didn't think abou that.
But still, OotP was just...it was...there was just...IT WAS WROOONG.
If i went into a list you would be reading all day, so I'll spare you that horror ;D
I live up in the mountains, so i don't get many chances to go to the sea and swim. But i have swam in the great lakes and i have swam in pools. Even at the end of summer, the water of the great lakes was darn cold! I don't think i can bring myself into swimming in the open ocean. I think Poseidon is out to get me if i go out there again.
Well, this was about snorkeling, not scuba diving! But I understand what you mean. The Great Lakes must be cold! I can barely stand cold pools, much less lakes.
the great lakes freeze over completely in a cold winter. they hold over 1/5 (or so) of the world's fresh water that isn't locked up on the poles. let THAT sink in for a bit.
At times i hate the cold. it makes my old joints and scars ache. But on the other hand, it doesn't really affect me other wise as much. maybe i have anti-freeze in my veins.
I've never been snorkeling or scuba diving, but I love swimming. My mom and sisters and I are saving our change for a hopeful vacation in a year or two, we'll maybe go to Texas so we can see the ocean. I'll definitely swim in the ocean, but my brother and one of my sisters wouldn't because they freak out just seeing a shark on TV. LOL
It's not that insane Miss Emma. People don't always have the means or need to travel the world over, or even leave where they live as much. You have probably seen more of the world in your short life than 50% of the people in the world so far.
Hi! Well, I snorkeled when I went to the Caribbean Islands! But that was a fair amount of years ago. I think I saw a small shark! It was creepy, bit I loved seeing the different schools of fish and the coral! I think it's cool swimming in the ocean, but when you get out, you feel all the salt that's left, and I don't really like feeling salt in my hair and stuff! :S Later on, I got a sunburn all over my arms and shoulders, so I had to walk around like a zombie! Haha!
I hope I can go to Hawaii too sometime! It sounds awesome!
(I love the color of the water, and Chapel's bathing suit! Oh, and the little fish!) Great Job, Emma! XD
The closest i had ever been to a shark was when i saw one in the Shedd Aquaruim in Chicago and when i had one for dinner in New York City. Both of which is good enough for me!
OHHHH I hate the feeling of salt! After I swam in the ocean I took about two showers to feel fully clean. I have really pale skin, but I don't get sunburned easily even once my sunblock has worn off! I don't tan easily, either. Actually, I can't recall ever having gotten a sunburn in my life...Hawaii is great, you should definitely go sometime if you can! I'd love to see the Caribbean sometime, too...
My family and I just got back from a cruise around the Caribbean last week. When we landed in Mahogany Bay we did a "SNUBA" diving excursion. It's like SCUBA, but instead of having the tank attached you your back, it floats on the surface and you use a hose to breath. We actually dove at the site of an old sunken ship where coral had begun to grow. It was neat.
We went snorkelling as well, but it was easier to breathe during the SNUBA diving and we saw FAR more marine life.
Sure thing. It the ship was actually an old cargo boat. The ship had just set sail for Jamaica having just installed a new diesel engine. They were transporting rice. Anyways installing the new engine on an old boat must have been a bad idea, because they ended up breaking the engine and cracking the hull of the boat which forced them to make an emergency stop in Grand Cayman. (I know I said Mahogany Bay, in my previous post, but I should have said Grand Cayman)
Well when the sailors got off the boat they did exactly what you'd expect a group of sailors to do! They got drunk! And while they were drinking, water got into the crack of the boat and soaked the cargo. It wasn't much water, so this wouldn't have mattered, except... We all know what happens to rice when it gets wet. It expands!
When the sailors got back to the ship in the morning it was half under water. The rice had expanded so much, that it cracked the hull to the point where it couldn't float any more! Oops.
Some years later the British navy decided that the shipwreck was a hazard to anyone trying to use the pier and they blew it up!
You can still see big pieces of the boat, but it's mostly fragments of the frame and hull. Coral is growing all over it and fish have moved in since, so it's really neat. You just have to be careful of the sharp edges!
Yeah, me too. I chicken out when my mom asks if I want to swim in the ocean, though, because I'm scared of sharks trying to bite my leg off! (Soul Surfer changed my mind about that.) I'm kind of a pool-person. Pools rock!!! -Robin
Don't worry about sharks biting you, those are very rare. worry about all the OTHER deadly sea critters getting you. Jelly Fish are more likely to kill you than a shark will.
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I was also scared at first to go into the cove, but then I was fine once we put on provided life vests.
Also, I haven't been on here in a couple weeks, and I LOVE the updates you did to the website.
Great strip!!
Check out this fantastic interview Comic Book Resources did with Emma.
awesome!
ALSO one of my fave strips EVAR! Love it it's so CUTEEEEE especially the last panel
If I seen hyper to you it's because today is Reaping Day and I'm seeing THG in less than two hours so I'm DYYYYYIIIINNNGGGG
But still, OotP was just...it was...there was just...IT WAS WROOONG.
If i went into a list you would be reading all day, so I'll spare you that horror ;D
oh, and no, i have not scuba in my life. ^^;;;
At times i hate the cold. it makes my old joints and scars ache. But on the other hand, it doesn't really affect me other wise as much. maybe i have anti-freeze in my veins.
I love the clownfish, haha!
I hope I can go to Hawaii too sometime! It sounds awesome!
(I love the color of the water, and Chapel's bathing suit! Oh, and the little fish!) Great Job, Emma! XD
We went snorkelling as well, but it was easier to breathe during the SNUBA diving and we saw FAR more marine life.
Well when the sailors got off the boat they did exactly what you'd expect a group of sailors to do! They got drunk! And while they were drinking, water got into the crack of the boat and soaked the cargo. It wasn't much water, so this wouldn't have mattered, except... We all know what happens to rice when it gets wet. It expands!
When the sailors got back to the ship in the morning it was half under water. The rice had expanded so much, that it cracked the hull to the point where it couldn't float any more! Oops.
Some years later the British navy decided that the shipwreck was a hazard to anyone trying to use the pier and they blew it up!
You can still see big pieces of the boat, but it's mostly fragments of the frame and hull. Coral is growing all over it and fish have moved in since, so it's really neat. You just have to be careful of the sharp edges!
-C