0-8 ~Wedneiday, January 8, 1986'~- North’ Shore News

Doug Collins

‘1SOME PEOPLE: don’t like snakes,

° > get this straight «

even

i harmless ones. And mouse-haters are Common. Me, I save my phobias for something worth

while, like the shark:

. Not that I've ever seen a. shark ir the. wild. If I-did

Pd faint, for.I just | know . the critters are waiting to.

dine on Doug. And the ex-:

perts needn’t tell me that: the chances of being grabb-*.

_ed by those big sharp teeth: ‘are smaller than being’ struck by lightning. The ex-

| perts aren’t sharks, and |

sharks keep’ quiet.about the

number «of Dougs they’ve’ *. nasty fellow tried to tip him

scoffed.

“This respect:for the big.

fish didn’t start with Jaws. It started. when. I. heard Australians ‘telling horrible f shark “stories. Thus, years

later, when I visited Bondi,

‘Beach, near. Sydney, [:; stayed right in the middi | the hundreds of per

were’ frolicking:

‘allegedly, ‘shark

would -make a better

‘ breakfast than Lwould. Nor. was | much impressed when |

a beach guard told me they . had: ‘shark nets Out and that } ha

fust see” the. «Vestine Van- First i in 150

headlines:

‘reef. ‘Ha! So I didn’t. goin

“above my knees, and even’ that didn’t feel-safe.-

“Such being the way things

‘are ‘with me; it follows that.

“Tread every book on sharks

I can’ get, and’ one of: the:

‘pest is The Shark ©

Nature's’ Masterpiece, ° “by "

ROD. Lawrence, achap who |

lives in ‘Ontario “and .has-

studied our: friends for much of his life. He is a first- class writer, and even gave.me a new- Sword” —

“lass: of fish to which the . shark belongs. at

Where. Lawrence goes wrong, however, is that he ‘likes the damned _ things. -‘They’re -so efficient,. he says, and not properly ap- “ preciated, (They are by me, ‘though!). :

In the interests of science, Lawrence sometimes takes things too far. There was the occasion when a really

out of his boat and would have succeeded if our. man hadn’t suddenly

remembered he had a gun ;

under the gunnel. Not.content with that, he! allowed himself to be. lowered into deep water off cue coast of Angola, actual- offering the incoming:

ae ecies helpings of his |

bi ‘yod, just to see whether _ sharks are attracted by the

stuff; -

They aren , it seems. But

i love lymph and. other

tasty secretions. -And you ean tell when they’re going

‘attack, he says, because | ey wave their heads from |

ide to side: (T' hanks, but I

don’t think rh wait: around that long:)”

This book is not a collec-

‘tion of horror. stories,

Lawrence feeling the way he does. But there are a few — - Jike the one in which ‘a chap ~ diving: off - California. saw this’ buddy disappearing idown the maul of a bloody. “great. "Great: White — ‘feet first. And the one in-which :a:selachian’.on a. foraging ‘expedition went miles up a fresh : water: creek: in ‘New ‘Jersey, eating two boys and badly i injuring a third.

- Heck, we're not even safe “feo he:familiar dogfish, ‘which is-Jalso. a shark. ‘Lawrence was present up at ‘Port: 2 Hardy. “when one: bit ‘off a-Schap's,. ‘finger. ‘He “claims‘it was ihe guy’s own fault-for: putting -his hand into the water after ‘having dumped: ‘a lot of fish guts.

“The! ‘prudent: person,”” ‘States ‘Lawrence -un- ‘necessarily; ‘will leave. the:

“water: the moment he |

‘becomes’ aware “of ‘the presence * 2 OP any kind of shark.””.

The prudent person, say

-*And- don’t those” Selachians aren’t around: here. everywhere}*,

The Shark. Published by

They’ re |

Residents

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Horseshoe parking

From Pago 1

Bowen Island ferry com- mittee chairman ‘Rob Bot- terell had said Thursday that residents most inconvenienc- ed would be those who did not normally commute and

“therefore. had no regular

parking arrangements.

He estimated that an addi- tional 300, island. residents would be. looking for Horseshoe Bay parking

. Spaces. Approximately 400

people commute from Bowen island daily. .

In addition ‘to the 260 parking spaces in the B.C. Ferry Horseshoe Bay: lot, available for $2 per day, and 150 free . parking spaces across from the Glen Eagles

Golf course, Sewell’s Marina is offering an extra 60 spaces for $3 per day or $28 for the two-week period.

$1.4M OVERHAUL .

Sewell’s manager, Ken Northrup said Tuesday that 40 of the marina’s parking spaces had been taken thus far.

Street-side parking in Horseshoe Bay is currently restricted to three hours from 7.4.m. to 7 p.m. seven days per week.

Overhaul to the Bowen

Island dock will see the present single-lane wooden structure replaced with a double-lane ramp. The old wooden ramp is close to 40 years old.

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