Excerpt from letter dated February 21, 1956
To answer the question in your recent letter…yes, as usual I made our Christmas cards. As you can see easily enough, I still can’t draw! But I try valiantly.
We all are enjoying skin diving a lot. The reef is about 12 miles from Belize and there is an abundance and variety of fish in the clearest possible of water, which is unmatched in this hemisphere. It’s a lazy sport, floating along with goggles, fins, and a snorkel to breathe through, and simply sight-seeing. The fish are fascinating and come in more sizes, shapes, and colors than I ever could describe.