Nunatak over at the Beagle Project blog throws down the gauntlet and demands photos of disturbingly handsome people 'in fantastical and/or embarrassing fieldwork gear'.
Herewith my entry, taken floating just above the Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia in November, 2000:
(But kindly ignore the rather magnificent beer-gut.)
Steady on, ladies (and possibly gentlemen), I'm spoken for, I tell you!