Archive for September, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
coconut octopus aka veined octopus
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The Universe in the Eye of a Sleeping Puffer Fish
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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We Dove and Went to Heaven
Monday, September 28th, 2009
The underwater floor was black and grey speckles. Here and there brown rocks coated with green algae crudely stuck out of the bottom creating a depressing landscape with nearly no visibility. No colorful coral, no big fish, nothing to knock your fins off, unless… Unless you take a closer look.
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painted frogfish yawning
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And Once Again… Diving!
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
And once again into the blue,
into the red and the maroon,
into what wiggles and what bites,
and breathes with gills and has no plight.
I dive, look up, and wish mutation.
A simple swift transfiguration.
One that would allow to breath,
to stay beneath, and live like fish.
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Tangkoko
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
After a short detour to Malaysia we flew straight back to Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. We simply couldn’t stay away for too long – this part of Indonesia has some of the best diving spots and my fins were itching for a dip in the deep.
Being reunited with meant running through the forest again, and though we were still sore from Taman Negara, that’s just the sort of sacrifice we make for old friends. was with us as well. And we felt whole again among the closest of our nomadic friends.
Tangkoko was the usual laid back Indonesian National Park with no fences or gates but only a shack of a park office and rangers who were very surprised we didn’t stop by. We slept in an abandoned house in the forest, a stone’s throw away from a black beach, and as usual enjoyed sneaking around for a swim or a night walk, hoping to spot big eyes in the canopy. Unfortunately, the rangers did discover us in the morning but I bargained and the price of our freedom was included in a paid walk with a guide to a tree where the tarsiers lived and posed for pictures.
Tangkoko National Park Gallery
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One More Down
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Diving is a drug and I’m a proud pusher. I praise and idolize sucking on the tank and dropping down into an unreal world for one bizarre and wonderful trip.
It’s scary, but only at first, and most are hooked after the first hit. Away from the world on top, calm and moving with the flow, they lazily explore or eagerly search for something new knowing that anything imaginable and everything unimaginable can suddenly appear and change all that one once knew about life on earth and in its depths (which, btw, is nothing much at all).
Come with me, take a giant stride, roll back, or simply dive under – It’s so uncomfortable on land with those big flat pieces of plastic strapped onto your legs. Under here it’s calm and you can fly and be almost weightless. Like good drug dealers we gave her the first hit for free. And she flew. Awkward at first, but then taking control, body, equipment, all in sync, flying towards that perfect high that today seemed to take the shape of a turtle.
on her first dive ever. Perhentian Island, Malaysia.
Perhentian Island Diving Gallery
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