By Mark Gauert
From South Florida Sun Sentinel
The “bucket-list” trip to Bimini called for stops for conch fritters, a tour of the Dolphin House Museum — and a boat tour, “where we go swimming with reef sharks.”
So.
So, the last time I went swimming near a reef, I saw a shark. A big shark.
So big, I had not been swimming near a reef, or even an ocean, since then. “Then” being about 25 years ago. (Just checked the calendar. Yes, that long.)
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the “swimming with reef” part. Not so much the “shark” part….