The Oceania Duet

Reefdog is an adventure of a book about Oceania and the accelerating race between nature and humanity. Ravi Rockulz, dive leader, grows weary, pushing 40 and still lugging tanks. He has friends and many acquaintances; tourists on the seven-day cycle. He seeks change but meets a woman who changes his perspective on life adrift.

This excerpt is early, on arrival down south:

"Hawaii excels in fantasy for sale and regret. Commerce trumps culture, and money rules. Decimation and growth are made to glisten in magazines and fetch top dollar. Or lower dollar in group sales. Scenic vistas and terrific cleavage prove value either way, and the money rolls in on jobs, affordability, and growth. French Polynesia is merely hot with so much less and more. Growth is green; vines creep amid species not going extinct, no landscaping required. Bird chatter and insect hum blend, as the bus door shuts on a man delivered to the country road of his dreams. The smoke recedes, and so begins the now here. He listens in a meditation of minutes or years and walks up the drive. Gears shift and fade."