[Previous entry: "WATER VENDING MACHINE ...... California 1969"] [Next entry: "ANTI-VIETNAM WAR POSTERS ..............LA's Sunset Blvd. 1969"]
28/05/2008: "SEA WORLD CHANCE ENCOUNTER ....... San Diego 1969"
Highlight of a visit to what was then the best oceanarium anywhere, was not this monkey. It was a pair of killer whales.
On the same day I bumped into George Meyer a free diving spear fishing champion formerly from Canberra (ACT) and now living in California.
George and some friends were visiting the oceanarium.
What were the odds of bumping into the only other Australian I knew in USA? How it happened was even more remote. I spotted a tall blond haired guy in a red T-shirt in the distance and thought.... "I wonder if that's George Meyer"? On closer inspection, guess who!
There's a three page fold-out picture of George Meyer February 1968 National Geographic - with one of the first whale sharks photographed underwater, Montague Island, New South Wales.
