Herbert Warren Maw, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 6, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 276

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W RRE MAW PRI 2 01 R d ea and through the uez Canal (so I got through b th canal ), int th Mediterranean Sea. Our first stop in there was at Naples, Italy, and that v\a ery fortunate for me and one of the other officers on board we wer on lib rty and 1 king around the place and here came a group of American girls with a lady tutor. nd th y were going to go over to the Isle of Capri. So we said, ' Could we go to the Isle of apri with you?" A real opportunity (laughs). And she said, "Yes." So we went over there and that was really, that was an amazing thing. They have a special small boat ride where you go at the island. You go into a cave from the water and you go in there far enough where it's absolutely black, except somehow, somewhere in that cave light gets into the water. So you can't see anything up here but if you put your hand in the water it sparkles with light. It was really, it was pretty. The only way to get into that cave was by boat; if the wave was up it would dash you against the top of the cave so you had an experienced boatman there so that when the wave was up he'd start you in. As the wave would go down you'd go in the cave and the waves would come up the other side. So you get in there and it was absolutely perfectly dark. JOAN: Is that the Blue Grotto? WAR: The Blue Grotto, that's what it's called. And, again, we had a party with the locals. Next we were going to go to the French Riviera and we were all excited about that. You know, you'd always heard of the French Riviera. But one of the men on one of the ships got polio. Nobody knows why or how. They immediately quarantined the whole group and so we could not go ashore anymore. We were going to stop there and at Gibraltar. We went through the Gibraltar Straits, which is interesting, that end of the Mediterranean Sea. Here's a big mountain here and here's a big mountain here and as 39