The Shenandoah Dive Locker

Mediterranean Cruise - January to July 1986

First Stop: Southern Spain

                                          Vice, Rick, and I took a bike ride on our first opportunity to get away and went all through the naval port town of Rota.  The first picture is a glimpse of what it looks like on the other side of the Atlantic.         

                      Caldow, Rick, and I took a bike ride one day to Cadiz through Puerto de Santa Maria.  We checked out the bull-ring, traveled the back streets, highways & bi-ways, stopped at would be our favorite pit-stop for snacks (had my first ever "calamari rings" that day), and then our last stop for drinks.

            Oh man did we ever have fun with this one...Here's Red being hassled one evening out in town.

            This was actually our "turnover" party with the ship we were relieving - the USS Yellowstone.  We're suppose to get together and talk about what expect on the cruise, yada, yada, yada...pass the wine.  There's Cooksie giving a MDV Bowdish impersonation, and Hess being drunk while swiping my camera.  What's up with those pink overalls...?  Adios Yellowstone... 

                                                    This is what it looks like sailing into the Mediterranean Sea through the Straights of Gibraltar...pan left to right; the picture on the far left is the Atlantic Ocean, then you see the southern-west tip of the European continent on the next photo, then the "straights," then the last pictures on the right you start to see the northwest tip of the African continent.  I have to admit it was a fantastic sight to see!

To make the moment of traveling through the straights even more exciting, a pod of dolphins were racing the ship and doing tricks for us.          

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