Southeast Asia
Dec 17: First off - my apologies for sinking into the deep depths of the cliche abyss and writing Thailand with shells. I was completely drained from a baker's dozen of wonderful dives in the Similan Islands. I did not see the one animal I'd hoped to - a Manta Ray - but made up for it with the likes of other various sharks, rays, eels, fish and mermaids. I caught a break when the videographer for the boat was just ready to start his week off and agreed to let me use his underwater video equipment for 10 bucks. I got an hour of mostly blue and white footage which will be in the forthcoming video release. I was also lucky in getting a fantastic Brazilian dive buddy who's the featured performer in my wierd Similan Island pictures.
I'm currently in Singapore after yet another all night bus ride. I figured, since I didn't get any sleep last night, that an apt study in sensory deprivation would be to hit the moderately tacky Under Water World on Sentosa Island. Sure enough, standing with red eyes on a little conveyor belt going through a big plastic tube looking at fat and lazy sharks and rays and listening to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer at top volume..I started to hallucinate. But these weren't any normal hallucinations..this thing I saw was too perfectly absurd to come from my weak mind. This thing had a wisdom - a tortured serenity reserved for blind celebate monks and late night 7-11 clerks. And how else could a hallucination be captured on camera?
Again my luck held as I was eased back into this world by the sweetest petting tank this side of Cardiff.
These, apparently, are all the rage on the beach now. But you can take off the red thong string and just keep it as a pet too.
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