[CINC] Still true!

[Vivi Teston]

Paul, it was AWESOME to see YOU up there being awarded the Blue Whale award
!! I have had the joy of being on the CX with you many a time in my short
five years of CINC & it was always a memorable experience. to volunteer
with you. What a rare Gem you are & thank you for all your sharing/caring &
genuine enthusiasm you bring to every whale watch trip.. THANKS for being
Paul.. the ONE we celebrated last nite along with so many others... YOU
Rock !! [?][?]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:59 PM, paul jr petrich <ppetrich39 at me.com> wrote:

> CINC, CINP, and CINMS Colleagues,
>  OK: I pinch myself  24 hours later and it is still true. Given there are
> so many hard working and passionate people in the CINC,being the recipient
> of  the Blue Whale Award is truly, truly humbling. Tara kept it a total
> secret from me.
>    One small correction about the all too generous script provided by Tara
> and Shauna: My access to San Clemente Island as a teen was not through my
> dad. At the time he was a captain on a recently commissioned California
> Fish and Game research vessel, as well as an officer in the Naval Reserve.
> Such a miss-step would have got him expelled from both. San Clemente was,
> and is, all US Navy territory. In fact, Frank Hall, then a skipper of a
> sport fishing vessel out of 22nd Street Landing in San Pedro dropped his
> deckhand, me, off on the island to retrieve an anchor we lost on a previous
> trip. I got to explore a little while waiting for a minus tide, and for
> Frank to comeback from fishing another cove. According to Marla Daily, *All
> Eight  *landings don't have to be legal!  Keep on Swimmin!  Paul    P.S.
> Buster Hyder, of Santa Barbara Island fame, owned 22nd Street Landing at
> the time.
>
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