TALES OF A BIG HEADED OWL...

i've really forgotten how a starry night should really look like up till Saturday night.
though it was Earth Hour, but i didn't turn off my light coz the 7.2V Torchlight was my only light source with 25.4m deep of seawater over me..haha!!!
But anyway, when we finally surface and did manage to turn off my torch...the sky took our breath away. Stars were littered everywhere, and there wasn't a single spot in the sky where you would have pointed and not be pointing to one or more stars. in Singapore, a clear starry night would mean cloudless skys with widely spread spots and dots of star blinking. But floating in the middle of the sea a starry night means a sky densely peforated with stars so fully packed that the whole entire sky shimmers like sequin. It like being in the planetariums omni theater, the rough curvature of the atmosphere can be seen as the stars spreaded from on end to the other, and even though it was pitch black, we could see. the effect of all this stars shining down on 6 of us floating on the surface of the wide open sea was truly magical..

on a side note!!! tan on friday, burnt on sat, and sun, and i have a feeling lobster red tomorrow, and peeling-like-a-banana by wed...sucks to be back!!

oh ya! Tim, for you...tons of Titan Triggers; a 25cm thick White Starry Moray; 1 equally big Black-Spotted Moray; 1 solitary turtle; 1 humongous lobster; the usual family of Humphead parrotfish, 3 adult and a baby; schools of Juneville Barracudas; a microscopic 1.5cm Squat Lobster, and *drumroll*....the pièce de résistance.....
1 gi-normous Mable Ray, not your typical plate size sambal stingray, but a 2.5m wing span giant, and
2 awesome whitetip reel sharks, which i sacrified a thumb to spot, at home in their coral den

we bask in your jealousy, bro!! haha!!!!