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Pisceans do it best...
...underwater. *snicker* ;-) It seems to me my true fishy nature is coming out, as I can't get enough of being out there in the ocean! I do recall talking to someone on IM recently (Laura, I think it was) about how the symbol for Pisces, the sign I happen to have been born under, is exactly accurate as far as "characterizing" my life right now. Half of the time part of me is swimming upstream, like a salmon going back to spawn (i.e., recharging my batteries when I'm back here in Maui), and the other half of the time I'm swimming downstream to the sea (my work life when I'm in Berkeley). Symbolism aside, I've been spending a whole lot of my waking hours these days in the ocean, learning how to be in that element, as befits my fish nature. Or so the theory goes.
[ 5:30 p.m. much as i love the sea, i cannot abide the saltwater drying on my hair and making of it a nice, crunchy mess. besides, to eat salty hair properly, ya gotta have sliced green mangoes to go along with it, and i got none of the latter at the moment. so, off to shower i must. i'll continue this later... ]
a third past 7 p.m. ...
Out free-diving today, I once again saw a small bevy of juvenile barracudas (couldn't have been the same ones I saw yesterday, could it?!) chasing a school of convict tangs. Sorta like cops and robbers, neh? Convict tangs are of the surgeonfish variety, smallish and oval shaped at 4-6 inches usually, and have these distinctive, narrow, black vertical stripes on their sandy-yellow bodies, thus the name. These fish are endemic here (can only be found in Hawaiian waters). Barracudas are, well, as the stereotype of this particular fish has it, ravenous and ill-tempered. (Trev, tell YOUR barracuda story, please? *chuckle*) Saw also a beautiful, young banded moray eel shyly hiding behind some spiky, flaming red pencil sea urchins. The eel itself was creamy white, with thick maroon bands, and it was coiled in an S-shape around the base of the sea urchins. It allowed me to come up really close and peer at it, unlike most fish, which dart away (unless you have frozen peas to give them, the little beggars!).
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A few years ago I went to visit my relatives in Florida and went to the beach. My cousin and I went out swimming with my Dad and his sister -- we were about 75 feet out when my dad looked down to see about ten good sized Barracudas swimming beneath us. He turned to tell my cousin and I to look down at them but we werent there anymore- he looked back and forth and then looked out near the shore and saw both of us running out of the water as fast as we could. I didnt actually see them too good - - I just remember looking down at a group of 5-feet long fish with gaping jaws and razor-sharp teeth.
HAHAHA your dad probably thought you and your cousin had been made a snack of by the bastards. Thanks, Trev! ^_^ I can always count on you finding the neatest animal pix on the web, and pronto. Btw: hurry up and become a marine biologist already, so you can come and help figure out what the hell's wrong with the green sea turtles of Hawaii (and Florida, too, actually). I almost threw up my dinner tonight, while watching a video I borrowed from the library this afternoon, about what's ailing the green sea turtles here. It's a bloody grotesque-looking disease called fibropapilloma, which causes huge tumorous growths on the turtles' heads and flippers, so much so that their eyes are all tumored over and they can't see, and their flippers weighed down with these grotesque and naaaasty looking tumors that are soon infested with parasites. At the late stages of the disease the turtles can barely swim, and cannot see. So, they can't eat, they starve, they die. The green sea turtles have been around since the age of the dinosaurs, and it would be a pity indeed if they were to die out now. Marine scientists haven't figured out what's causing this yet, so hurry up and join them, okay? If you find the cure they might even name it after you, haha. And that'll be the inscription on your headstone: T.R.: SAVED RARE MARINE SPECIES FROM EXTINCTION. ;-)
 Speaking of death and dying... not to be so morbid, but more and more I'm convinced that I'd love to be buried at sea. Wait, no... not buried! LOL Have my ashes hurled out into the bluegreen expanse, or taken by some young marine biologist friend into a sea cave, in a little high-tech transparent flask which will biodegrade in an environmentally friendly way, releasing my minuscule mortal remains eventually into the water. (Providing food for the resident manta rays of that cave, or sundry convict tangs or banded morays.) So. Where might I find a lawyer so I can draw up these precise instructions? *snicker* Oh wait. This is America: there's a lawyer on every streetcorner. Never mind... I'll just hail me one by myself. ;-p
[ Hmm, Candace. Another curious thing: was talking about barracudas... then segued in the end to lawyers, entirely subconsciously. Wonder why... *smirk* Photo note: That's the Pisces astrological symbol, in stained glass no less, in the famous cathedral in Chartres, France. ]
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