This poem, a companion to Space Ride, is dedicated to Marion, with love and admiration. We rode the sea together.

Oh let's take a lickety splickety trip
On a rickety, rackety, rockety ship
With buttons to push and with handles to grip
We'll head out to sea at a clippity clip

We'll add on some flippers to flippity flip
As into the ocean we dippity dip
Well drive through grand canyons
And then move along to dive with the whales
As they burst into song
And if a whale wiggles its whale of a tail
We'll wiggle right back with our undersea sail
Mountains rise up from the ocean floor
Above the waves? Islands galore!

Here on the sea floor it's darker than night
So now we will turn on our super bright light

And wow! We have come to a curious spot
While all around it is colder than zott
Through floor cracks comes seawater boiling hot
And though you might think that a nice place it's not
Strange animals living there like it a lot

And now we will rise to a special place where
Sunlight lights up all the fish that swim there
Peanut butter and jellyfish, spotty potbellyfish
Shrinky-then-swelly fish, real stinky smelly fish

Many sea creatures try hiding their charms
Right here can you find two with more than four arms?

The sea is so salty, oh so salty, so
Do you think we can drink it? Oh no! Oh no no!
We drink our fresh water from streams and from lakes
It comes down as rain, ice, and even snowflakes

As we go up and head for the shore
We see the sea lions who bellow (not roar)

We pass, on the way, pirate's cove, where they say
The water is so mirror clear every day
If you can look down and get the right view
You'll spy pirate treasure -- why, the treasure is you!

Now we'll fly high for an over all view
Look down at the brown land and ocean bright blue
And the white clouds are quite full of fresh water too
I don't think there's any place wetter. Do you?