Norman’s Woe was considered one of the most secrete beaches. I agree. I have been diving Cape Ann a lot and (quite embarrassing) I do not know where it is.

This summer has been sponsored by rain and cold. It finally ended. The first ‘summer weekend’ has arrived. I felt guilty not to have my gear wet. After a quick search in my email, I sent a message to Robert. I didn’t know Robert at all. After an email exchange and a quick phone call at 11:30 pm on Saturday night, I met Robert and Jackie at the Dunkin Donuts on Rt 128.

I understand immediately why Norman’s Woe is secret beach when we get there. To get to the beach, there is a 200 yard hiking across the woods. For shore divers, it’s not fun at all! The sound of the wave can be heard from quite far away. When I got to the site, it was very rocky. I was thinking it was going to be a quite serious diving.

To my surprise, although the scene looks very intimidating, it wasn’t bad at all. The hiking path is very flat. If you are patient and make multiple trips to move the gear, it’s a very pleasant walk. Although the beach looks very rocky, there are only large flat rocks piled like stairs. (You can image how hard it is walking on the pebbles at Folly Cove.) If you pay attention to the wet seaweed on the rock, it is just like walking on the paved road. Although the wave hits the rock hard, it’s not difficult to get in and out. Don’t fight with the water. It will carry you to the shore!

The water temperature is between 45 and 55 degree. It’s a little bit chilling at about 50 ft depth. The seaweed starts booming and there are lots of lobsters. In about 40-minute dive, Robert had two that fit his lobster gauge – not bad at all!

It was a pleasant dive. Particularly the beauty of the beach made the dive trip so much interesting!

Happy 4th of July from Cambridge!

I am not a fan of pop music and I never really know MJ. A piece of memory was sitting in front of TV with my Dad years ago watching one of his tours: fans screaming and passing out. The stage was so small compared with the sea of crowd. My dad and I was just wondering: how people could even pass out without seeing the singer??

Even though, I know MJ is in the background of my life. News, tv interviews and gossips pop out quite often about him. As pointed out by others, this is probably the reason of sadness from his death: a page of life was tuned over.

I sit down in front of my computer and watched almost everything about him in youtube, such as the Oprah interview, Living with MJ, his MTV, etc. I am amazed by how well he could connect with his fans. Even I am not a fan, I am also thrilled when I see the moon walk.

Everyone actually wants to know who is exactly MJ. But it’s disappointing that many people are not satisfied with the fact that he is sensitive, caring and generous. The don’t care about his music and his contribution. The door of the Never Land is finally open. Camera like those from CNN can finally take a peek of the toilet in the mansion. They try do dig deeper and deeper. They want to squeeze more and more. They never mentioned his music, his philosophy his donations.

I mute the TV and start to listen to Billie Jean with tears in my eyes. It’s very sad to see his death.