CHAPTER VI 

 CRUISE OF 1938 



The spring of 1938 found me again at Nassau with guests who were in- 

 terested in whatever might be forthcoming, to whom the Bahamas were 

 new, and cruising in a small boat a great pleasure, notwithstanding lack of 

 comfort. 



We made a party of four: my wife (Ann) , Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. 

 Shettle (Emily and Arthur), and myself. This time a new, modern still 

 camera with a well designed case of cast bronze had been procured. The 

 old reliable case for the motion picture camera was still on the job. 



Instead of doing something new we sailed directly for Highborne Cay, 

 Exuma, for two reasons. It is the most attractive and astonishing place to 

 new-comers in the Bahamas that I have as yet visited, and experience had 

 assured me of finding colorful and interesting subjects for under- water 

 and surface photography. 



For three days we lay there enjoying the bathing, bottom-fishing, 

 weather and moonhght, and solitude— as well as the photographic work. 

 The locations we had chosen for diving were subject to strong currents 

 and it was necessary to select a time shortly before slack water for our 

 diving. The tide would always be running fairly fast before I finished. In 

 some cases this gave to my still-pictures an additional interest, for they 

 show the vegetation bending as shrubbery does on land in a high wind. 

 Emily had her first experience under a diving helmet, which she enjoyed 

 immensely. 



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