And You're Telling Me This Now?!

Disclaimer: I admit this post is not tennis related. However in an effort to find balance I have made the executive decison to every now and again add random posts -- you know, to keep things interesting.

The other day I was looking through some photos taken when I was in Mexico late last year. I had to laugh when I saw this one, and thought I would share. This is me (obviously) in the water with the boat captain who took Jim and I snorkeling to a chain of islands off the coast of La Paz. We were at least an hour, probably more like two, away from civilization (i.e. hospital, medevac, etc.).

So, what is so funny about this picture is that as the captain and I were walking into the water (the plan being to swim out to those rocks in the distance) he was emphatically telling me to shuffle my feet into the sandy bottom while walking. Somehow, Jim managed to snap this picture just as he was answering my question of "Why do you want me to do that?". His reply was that there was a large population of sting rays where we were. (Apparently shuffling or stamping your feet would scare them away.) Otherwise, he told me, you step on them and worse case, their stinger gets stuck in or goes through your foot. (Ok, so maybe you had to be there. But it was really funny.)