Month: February 2014

The Sign Says It All!

How perfect is this sign! Loving the warm water and lots of sea snakes, turtles, rays, and gorgeous fish.  It has been a lovely break from a stressful last two months.  I didn’t realize how similar sea snakes are to terrestrial snakes and, oh yeah, ten times more venomous than the Australian Brown Snake.  Lot’s of safety protocols in place and I was re-certified in Workplace First Aid, CPR, and oxygen administration in the event of decompression illness (DCI).  No risk of DCI for us.  We are just snorkeling.  All this beauty is at a maximum of 4 meters.  We just hold our breath and dive down to catch the snakes.  We have caught four so far and are taking photos, measurements, genetics samples, and observing behaviour. I will post more as time and internet access permits!  Cheers to you all! XOXO, Teresa

On Track and Loving Life

Made it to Geraldton and of course met fantastic people. I’m staying in a hostel and opened up the food share fridge and found two huge crays for dinner. That was worth the 30 dollars right there!  Taking off for Shark Bay tomorrow.  Here is the kind Irishman, Liam, who let me use his phone for this post!

SHARK BAY, HERE I COME

I’m taking a bus to Geraldton because that is the furthest north I could get with the hope of being to Denham, Western Australia by 23 Feb 2014.  I got a great opportunity to study a rare Sea Snake in Shark Bay 23 Feb to 3 Mar 2014. Will keep you posted on the adventure of getting there and the excitement of finding out about the trip last Sunday and making it happen in less than a week! Cheers, Teresa

TERESA DIEHL TAKING SEXY TO A NEW LEVEL

Been Flat Out and haven’t even been able to write anything on my Thesis Proposal or Independent Study Contract, let alone a post. You just get a Funny this week.  I caught a glimpse of myself in a window as I was preparing to bike home in all my safety gear, and just cracked up.  I stopped by the Computer Lab where I knew my friend was still working and we both almost fell on the floor laughing so hard.  She snapped the photo and entitled it:

The Rock

World Wrestling Federation, Dwayne Johnson, NOT!  This is so perfect.  The introduction ties in beautifully with the conclusion.  WWF no longer exists!  Who knew?!?  My young readers will be baffled by this post.  My experienced readers should get a chuckle. I have been going non-stop since I returned to Perth.  I moved.  I moved again.  Yes, that’s right I am no longer in Port Kennedy.  I am in Cooloongup, an Aboriginal name if you hadn’t guessed.  I care for two dogs and two cats, tutor four students, kayak as often as I can, attend lectures Tuesday evenings, and study at the Murdoch Rockingham Campus when I’m not sleeping or doing Yoga on Monday. After kayaking through a storm and experiencing a towing rescue (yes, I was the one being towed), I redeemed myself by perfecting the “Diehl Roll.”  That’s where you have your hands all out of position, but you come up anyway.  My Coach says he’s going to see if he can master it tomorrow. My housemate is gone and I found a video, not a DVD, of The Rock, with Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage, and Ed Harris.  It was exactly what I needed.  Two hours of all consuming entertainment.  Not only that, but I have been completely accepted.  Jackie and Jesse (resident cared for dogs) enjoyed the movie sitting on my lap.  But the icing on the cake was rewinding the video.  Remember that?  For my young readers, let me explain.  In the olden days, pre-Blue Ray, DVD, 3D, TiVo, and Internet, movies that you rented or bought used to come on a videotape that wound from reel to reel.  Kind of like a large cassette tape, but you wouldn’t know that if you don’t know about videos and VCR‘s.  The whizzing and whirring brought back fond memories of recording Star Trek and the actual occurrence of something going wrong and you didn’t get to see your show.  There was no internet to watch any show at any time.  We actually wondered about things back then.  If you wanted to know something, you had to go to a library!  I know, unimaginable! Don’t get me wrong, I love my Internet and the clear crisp images now available, but there was value, I think, in wondering about something.

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