At 12:52 PM 4/8/00 -0400, devt@webtv.net wrote: >John, > I hear they have a public swimming pool in Austin that has live fish > in it. >is this so or just local humor. Well, I don't know about fish, but how about salamanders? Austin has Barton Springs Pool which is a swimming hole in the city park fed by a natural spring. It is as much a part of the Austin identity as Times Square is to New York. Worrying about those little salamanders, which are a species unique to Barton Springs, is a major occupation for the area's environmentalists. (And we do have a lot of very vocal environmentalists in Austin, salamanders aside). And actually Austin is only my adopted home, I am a transplant originally from Hudson/Bergen Counties in NJ. ********** John Clavin | jjc@bga.com | Austin, TX **********