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| Watery Delights | ||||
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| Frank Oppenheimer, Exploratorium | ||||
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| What manifold delights water can provide! The first night we were in Jamaica we drove to the eastern end of the island, found a deserted spot, and went swimming; the warm water was refreshing on that hot August night. We didn't swim long because the weather was threatening, and as I started walking back across the beach, the clouds let loose with a warm body-drenching tropical rain. Another night in Jamaica, on that same and only trip, we happened on a very ritzy place, Frenchman's cove; it was off-season, so they let us stay. We got there just before sundown and went swimming. There again was the warm water, but this time the warm water was coated on the surface with an icing of cool | fresh water from a stream that fanned out onto the sea water of the cove, so that although our bodies were in this warm salt water, our faces rested on the cool fresh water. We swam out beyond the cliffs that protected the cove and there, waiting for us to the east, was a most incredibly brilliant double rainbow. We swam and bathed in these delightful warm and cool layers of water, looking at the beautiful display of colors. The arcs were a full 180° because the sun had almost set. In fact, as we swam around, we watched the legs of the rainbows rise up in it the shadow of the earth as the sun finally set. Once before I had seen such a rising rainbow, but that other time it had been cast by the moon. The moon rainbow had no | |||