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Peter
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Food Chain
- "Don't get out of the boat" It is a weird feeling to actually be part of the food chain. There are tigers in the jungle there (or is that Cambodia?). I had that feeling one time while skin diving alone in Sharks Cove (Pupukea) adjacent to Waimea Bay, Oahu, during summer when it is like a lake. The bay is abruptly 30 feet deep and maybe 100 feet wide. Rocks the size of Volkswagens on the bottom, no sand (winter waves keep it cleared out), all sorts of exotic fish everywhere. !!I got out of the water immediately when, from way across the bay, smoothly gliding in my general direction I spied a 'fish' that was way larger than me!!