WATER TESTER'S PAGE
        Chris' bit of cyber space.

        I should have been a
        pair of ragged claws
        Scuttling across the floors
        of silent seas.

        T. S. Elliot.



        G'day. This is me,Chris,
        enjoying a fish-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef,
        Queensland, Australia.


        Water, a molecule which is essential for life, has been a major influencing factor in my life. My earliest memory is coming close to drowning in a lake near my home town (interestingly, there has been a 5 year drought there and the lake is now bone dry). Three years after this experience I finally learned to put my head under water again. I now love swimming and SCUBA diving and I hope one day to learn how to surf, windsurf and kayak. Ironically, I work in the water industry as a microbiologist.

        Another passion of mine is bicycle riding, and I have my bicycling friends to 'thank' for first calling me 'Water Tester'. So, thanks to all those in the Sub Club, including (but not limited to) Big Nose, Soy Boy, Blondie, Nursie, Audax Man, Possum, Captain, Roy Boy, and Hormone. They are a wonderful group of people, and without them those 9 day bicycle rides would not have been so much fun.

        I set up this page several years ago because friends told me how easy it was to create your own homepage. The following pages are proof of the ease of HTML, because it was simply by searching the internet that I taught myself how to write in HTML, though I have to admit that the drop down box below I stole from Janis' page! So, if anyone out there has the desire to create their own homepage, believe me it is easy....and even easier if you use those programs which mean you don't even have to learn HTML. If I can do it (a self confessed computer illiterate), anyone can!!

        I'd like to acknowledge my friends who, without the internet, I wouldn't know. There is something to say for spending too much time chatting online, as every now and again you come across someone with whom you just click. Without the internet I wouldn't know Janis, Michael, Maria, Dave or Pheng who have become such an important part of my life. Although I have moved about 1000 km from my home in Melbourne, they are still there on the internet so in some ways they feel as close as always. I love you all and I hope that you will all eventually get to Sydney to visit me (this goes for all my friends, not just the ones listed above). And my new friends I have met since being in Sydney, Wayne and Kyla, who once again I wouldn't know if it weren't for the internet, and yet they are such wonderful friends.

        Feel free to browse my site. You will find pages showing some of my life experiences, and I hope to include more in the near future. Don't miss out on my favourite holiday where I swam with the whalesharks.

        If you're still interested, here's more!

          The Sydney Experience

          Underwater photography

          Photographs of the Blue Mountains

          Adventures and adventurers

          My favorite poem by T. S. Elliot.

          The page of links.

          Who needs HTML!! My Xanga page. Click here.

          Recent, yet rare, pics of me that I actually like!

          Archived Pages

        Perhaps you'd like to visit some of my friends on the net.

          Janis....say hello to Wommie!(She doesn't bite)

          Janis' Xanga page....Janis writes often in her online diary.....

          Maria's Xanga page....and Maria doesn't. Hassle her to update, I dare you!

          Adele and Sam visit them, their twin sons and their farm in far north Queensland.

          Alan who lives in New Zealand!

          Pages recently updated:

          WA trip, 2001, updated (but not completed) 14/2/2002

          Pics of flowers in the Blue Mountains, updated 30/11/02

          Pics underwater at Portsea Pier, updated 30/11/02

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