Jibguy wrote: >>BTW, those 'bells' are BUOYS.<< Dan Strassberg wrote: >>And all this time I thought that bells had no gender. The female bells are higher in pitch, Right?<< and Ed Hennessy wrote: >>I've been told there are no female bells. Only gulls. Who hang around the buoys.<< Maybe they are *southern* belles. I thought I heard them drawl, "ding, dong, y'all". ------------------------------