#diving vacation

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Let me guess, let me guess ... Loopy De Loop and Hokey Wolf discussing plans for this summer's lupine-type diving vacation up in the Minnesota lakes country!!

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Postcards from Snagglepuss

Wrapping up some rather fascinating diving down Iowa way

ON WEST LAKE OKOBOJI, IOWA: With the Minnesota State Fair not that far off, it was getting time to wrap up our summer diving escapades with the Three Wolves and the Divin' Wolf Pups, no doubt rather fascinating, to the point of refreshing even!!

And to make things especially fascinating, the Hair Bear Bunch decided to join along with us for a final day of diving escapades.

"Nonetheless," Hair Bear observed, "you have to consider that we bears like our diving to be of the breath hold sort, more or less!"

To which Bubi chimed in, "You have to count on the clyde, just holding the breath and just seeing the wonder to be had underwater, the sheer fascination of it all!"

"I assume Bubi was saying that diving couldn't be more fascinating to us bears!" responded Square Bear.

"And no doubt the bear is right!" chimed in Hokey Wolf, more or less the lupine dive leader, even allowing for Loopy De Loop's charm and sophistication tending to be of Quebecoise origins (and such all the while excusing his desire to challenge lupine stereotypes of the sadisto, vicious sort of wolf) and Mildew Wolf's legendary wit and snark.

"Snagglepuss," Huckleberry Hound chimed in, "I just have to hand it to those wolves and bears for being in such interesting company."

"Of the underwater sort," saith I. And with that, down we went into such remarkably clear and divable waters in such an unusual locale as northern Iowa ... diving to a depth of some 50 feet, at which point we were led into a "friendship circle" underwater, just the eight of us in all, and what a mystic sort of fascination came over us.

Not to mention arousal and sensations between the legs for some reason or another!

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Towards the evening ... while the farewells with the lupine contingent may have been on the bittersweet side, the Hair Bear Bunch, for some reason, decided to take in the camper life during the Minnesota State Fair forthcoming.

"The company couldn't get to be more interesting," Huckleberry Hound remarked, prompting Hair Bear to remark that, even with a state fairgrounds as the venue, "such couldn't hold a candle to Camp Volkswagen--which is what we call our bivouac by the side of such lakes we camp besides during our road trips and hold orgies for two or three nights beside same."

"Yeahhhhh," Square Bear chimed in sheepishly, "just to feel the ursine-type LOVE, and do I mean LOVE!!!"

"Apologies there, Snag and Huck," Hair Bear remarked, "but Square Bear is bound to get a little too ahead of himself on occasion, especially during the bear mating season and imagining the sort of love discoveries we're bound to go through!"

"So, at any event," Huck remarked, "just to give you some semblance of directions--"

At any rate, next time around will begin another year at the Minnesota State Fair with yours truly ... and with such interesting guests as the Hair Bear Bunch, even!

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And you thought Tom and Jerry's underwater ballet scene with Esther Williams in Dangerous When Wet (1951) was rather cool:

Picture Tom and Jerry "themselves" (the latter perhaps bringing his cousin Nibbles along) on a diver's holiday of sorts not far from where The Three Wolves are on diving holiday themselves up among the World-Renowned and Far-Famed Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota ... and for some reason, Tom goes into the old routine of chasing Jerry and Nibbles (otherwise on an innocent dive) underwater when, all of a sudden, Tom is at a loss for air, blue in the gills even, which has Jerry and Nibbles all the more amused.

As well as Loopy de Loop, Hokey Wolf and Mildew Wolf, themselves on a dive not that far off, and captures the hilarious consequences of Tom's attempted underwater attack on Jerry and Nibbles on their mobile phones with underwater housing--even uploading the whole online once they return to dry land.

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Postcards from Snagglepuss

Kind of makes you look small--or can it?

OFF GUANA CAY, ABACOS ISLANDS, BAHAMAS: If ever there was a rather impressive dive spot to end all dive spots in The Bahamas, it would have to be a reef on the north side of Guana Cay in the Abacos group of the Bahamas known as "The Skyscrapers." Sitting in waters as reach 60 feet deep, with coral reaching literally to the ocean surface, one will certainly try and feel impressed by the sheer looks of such being not unlike a small city situated underwater.

Or am I getting a little too Trollkins for myself here?

Yet even with the looks of The Skyscrapers, care certainly needs to be taken in navigating. And you can never tell when a black-tipped reef shark will come along, let alone Jabberjaw ... but maybe for another time, as the Diver's Delight, the craft of the Peter Potamus Magic Divers, makes anchor off Guana Cay, the name prompting Mildew Wolf to wisecrack whether it would have been much amusing if it were named "Guano Cay." Until Peter pointed out that "guano" is another term for dung--especially such used as fertiliser.

And as I said, considering that many of the coral structures of The Skyscrapers reach to the ocean surface, care has to be taken with the approach.

And was it a dive for the books, videos even ... yet you wouldn't want to attempt an underwater game of "hide-and-go-seek" in this particular reef. Even with the Divin' Wolf Pups, who for some reason seemed attracted to some of the reef life hemmed in between rather hefty coral walls. And given just how narrow some of the passages in The Skyscrapers can get, it was understandable that Peter Potamus, considering his bulk (even for the leader of such a fascinating dive troupe), managed to crawl through one especially narrow passage ... diving on his side. And with barely an inch or so of his frame to spare, even with moray eels and black-tip reef sharks somehow seeing their share of fascination at such a sight. (Let's just hope any footage which Squiddly Diddly captured wasn't of an embarrassing sort.)

Yet then again, you can't help but wonder what can make the Bahamas so divable ... and there's some more to note here, fellow Hanna-Barberians!

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Postcards from Snagglepuss

Caribbean ahoy!

ABOARD THE DIVER'S DELIGHT OF PETER POTAMUS, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN WISCONSIN DELLS AND THE BAHAMAS: A corny postcard trope has it that "money can't buy happiness, but it can sure buy two weeks in the Bahamas!" Which must certainly be the thought of Peter Potamus' Magic Divers, the Divin' Wolf Pups, Peter's nieces Penny and Peggy, his nephew Perry II, yours truly (as in Huckleberry Hound and your lowly correspondent) and the Hair Bear Bunch as guests as his vessel--the former Jolly Rodger from Yogi's Treasure Hunt, you may or may not recall, since renamed the Diver's Delight--as we are sailing overhead in as close to beeline as feasable between the Dells and the Bahamas.

Specifically, Nassau, which can get to be an interesting place.

At any rate, Peter thought he'd surprise us and the Hair Bears with a flyover and splashdown into Lake Delton just before the winter drawdown ... and being able to board from the dock of Crazy Claws' retreat can only be said to be more interesting, even with being given short time to pack and make ready. That, and leaving our motorhome in the care of Crazy Claws, who arranged to have it stored in a garage in Wisconsin Dells during our diving journey.

At any rate, considering the situation politic in Florida, the details of which are perhaps too obvious to some of you, Peter felt it best to make a direct course to the Bahamas, using the aerial element to fly to the sun (so to speak) and to sail around the Bahamanian archipelago finding interesting dive spots along the way.

It was during a get-together and mixer for all of us diver types in the briefing room that Peter announced the first stop in the Bahamas, following the usual customs folderol in the port of Nassau, would be the Underwater Explorers' Club, something of a gravitas for the diver element and famous for its practice pool. Not to mention some rest in Nassau and some advice for diving around the Bahamas.

"Not to mention some of the local conch stew!" Peter added.

Let alone Peter "himself" relating experiences in diving when he managed, in spite of his bulk, to dive through some coral tubes alongside Polynesian natives in the uncharted reaches thereof, and survive with his hide unscathed from potentially sharp and piercing coral. Kingdom of the Seas, eat your heart out! And some of the more fascinating tales which some of the Magic Divers "themselves" were bound to relate about adventure in the underwater side of things....

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Which could easily explain the Peter Potamus Magic Divers ... and what they have in store this winter:

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Beside a modest little lake in northern Minnesota where we could imagine, say, the Three Wolves and the Divin' Wolf Pups on a diver's holiday: