WIIfDOWS FOB SEA ANGLEES 



to be seen, and in the summer if a small glass-bottom boat is 

 rowed offshore a short distance a veritable fiesta of these wonders 

 of the sea will be witnessed. Some are in chains or rings ; others 

 appear Kke fluted vases, and every possible shape and figure may 

 be observed. If a more graphic scene is desired take the glass- 

 bottom boat at night and drift around the kelp beds. Then 

 aU nature seems ablaze j myriads of worms, invisible during 

 the day, now come whirling to the surface and glow like lamps. 

 Every drop of water when disturbed is a blaze of Ught, and in 

 the depths a large barrel-shaped object, the Pyrosoma, is seen, 

 sparkling with blue light. Minute objects of aU colours of the 

 rainbow flash under the glass, and the sea appears to be filled 

 with meteors, comets and rains of fiery matter — ^a moving-picture 

 staged in the dark recesses of the sea. 



All this time we have been drifting on. The shining lure, a 

 fresh sardine, has dangled in plain view ten feet below the window. 

 Suddenly, up from the abysmal deeps of vivid blue, shoots a 

 meteor-like form in green, blue, yeUow and silver. It is a fish four 

 feet in length, splendidly active. It darts by the lure and the 

 azure sea seems to open as it disappears, as in wild confusion you 

 grasp the rod and attempt to stop the shrieking click. You have 

 seen through the window the yeUowtail strike, and now the ques*- 

 tion is how to land him. 



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