This is just lovely, @fishyculture - I'm not sure how I managed to miss it, but I'm grateful to have found it now.

I have a serious thing for water; always have, and always will. It is why I am a diver, why I am a sailor, and why I chose marine biology as my major. Water is life. . . and much more.

And, judging from your painting, you and I would have been best friends at that age. Who knows what mighty havoc we might have wreaked together? ;-)

Brava, my friend. Brava.