Bubba and Clem at Walker's Cay 2

It's about half past early when Bubba and Clem wakes up. Theys amble over to the airstrip to do theys morning run. This is the place that everyone on the island runs. They run for about three-quarters of an hour and head back to eat some breakfast. Both of em is sweating like a red neck writing a check. Such a beautiful day, just another day in paradise. Life is good. Bubba is happy.

The rest of their group is already in the restaurant and eating too. Clem orders him some French toast with some Maple sopping syrup and crispy bacon, Bubba orders 4 chicken eggs over medium and some sausage. They don't got no biscuits and sausage gravy in the Beehamas. Theys both have a Coke A Coler. The breakfast food is just as good as the supper. This Walker's Cay place is something else. Bubba thinks he must have died and gone to heaven. Bubba is having a reel hard time calling it Walker's Key ( Cay) and not Kay ( Cay ).

Today is the day. The day that theys get to dive with the sharks at the Shark Rodeo. Everyone is reel excited. Several folks has got cameras and a few have video cameras. Bubba is scared quiet.

Theys all gather up on the boat and Gary gives is incredible presentation on the shark feeding. PADI has a specialty course that Gary writ about Shark Awareness and everybody in the group signed up for it.

Gary is the one what invented this type of shark feeding. He uses what he calls a "chumsicle" to feed them with. This is made up of fish heads, innards and other parts freezede in a garbage can. Since Walker's Cay is a big time fishing resort, theys got a huge walk in freezer there.

When the boat gets to the dive site, and theys use the same place every time, it circles revving the motors to draw in the critters. Theys know that this sound means a feeding. They send the divers down and have them line up backs to the reef away from the chumsicle site. Then theys drop in the chumsicle, which has a float on top and is anchored to the bottom. Once the sharks come and start feeding and they can be a hundred of the critters, the divers are free to swim among them, but are to stay away from the chumsickle and are to watch out for parts of the chum falling on them and getting stuck between theys head and the tank. After the feeding is over the divers look for fresh lost sharks teeth in the sand. Wendy and Phillip are experts at finding them and they give them to the guests.

After getting back on the boat the whole group is jabbering about what an exciting dive it was. Some of the experienced divers in the group had done shark dives at some other places and said this was by far the best one yet. Gary and his crew are amazing in the water with the sharks or his kids as he calls them. Even Bubba is not scared of the creatures no more and wants to do another shark dive before theys leave. Gary's shark awareness class has convinced Bubba and everyone else that the creatures are wonderful and need to be protected and to be respected and not feared nor hunted.

Back at the bar up by the supper restaurant, the group is gathered and talking about the dive and how wonderful and magnificent sharks really are. A few of the folks from New Jerk City is also around the pool and Clem overhears them wondering why they don't get to dive with the sharks and acting reel disappointed. Clem knows why. Him and Bubba was talking to the New Jerk City groups leader last night, well actually just listening causen he wouldn't stop bragging about diving on this and that, how much stuff he has took from shipwrecks and how people flock to him for his diving knowledge. Then he were telling them how scared he was of sharks and he would never dive with them on purpose and how he totes a bang stick strapped next to his cell phone betwenst the double tanks and the 13.45 meter long hose. Don't want to think what Gary, Wendy and Phillip would do to anyone who hurt theys babies. Heck, he couldn't be more scared than Bubba, but Bubba being a reel man, did the dive and loved it. That New Jerk City feller was one of them high tech divers and brung all that junk with him to Walker's. Bubba just scratched his noggin and said to hisself what a clown this here New Jerk City group leader was, no wonder these peoples on his trip weren't having no fun. Bubba bet hisself that he could get most of them New Jerk City folks to go on Bubba and Clem's Dive Emporium and Gas Station dive adventure.

During lunch several of the divers from New Jerk City come over to Bubba and axed if theys could do the next shark dive with Bubba's group since their leader won't do one. Bubba, being the kind and friendly feller that he is said, sure theys could, and didn't even tell them that the leader feller was scared of sharks. Bubba did spill some of that pink colored dipping salve on his T-shirt that he got in Truk Lagoon.

Its time fer the afternoon dive trip so everybody heads down the hill to the dock and finds Philip and Barry at the boat ready to cast off for another fun and exciting dive excursion. Clem don't know it but that yankee gal in the yeller bikini string thang flew in this morning and would be awaiting Clem on that jet boat.

TO BE CONTINUED