Laura Hogg: Many Memories

Ralph Weckesser tending the gourmet dinner on Hope Island, 1991
Memories from Laura (Byatt) Hogg   
Wow … one favourite memory? No, many!     

– making ice cream on the beach on the Western Islands for a formal dinner  
– or perhaps baking bread there another year  
– dodging rocks being thrown overboard by the dive boat skipper at Tobermory  
– feeding hot dogs to the fish in the Moon River at Bala  
– John seeing a huge fish (really – it was that big!) on a drift dive  
– scrambling onto our ice floe in the Ottonabee River as we ran over a navigation marker  
– John’s Dad’s Volkswagen bus  
– Gain’s tea eggs  
– dutifully writing up yet another dive log entry “wreck somewhat broken up”
– doff and don in the HH pool    
– walking my bike up the St Clair hill after doff and don in the HH pool  
– Gerry and Joel’s Monty Python routines  
– the stack on the ‘Waome’ emerging out of the gloom as we descended  
– thermoclines  
– Francis Fowler  
– many, many happy weekends – great food, great friends, and even some pretty good dives!   

We’ll miss you guys.   

Cheers,  
Laura Hogg
Francis Fowler and the tippy barge on the way to the Waome