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Arecibo Observatory, Day 18 La playa, la playa, fuimos a la playa! We went to the beach on Saturday morning. I was the only one ready on time; everyone else was late, but oh well. I'm a morning person. The beach was BEAUTIFUL. soft sand and this gorgeous little bay shielded from most of the waves by a ring of rocks and coral reef. I got to touch coral reef (it's like... porous stone, but covered in a soft slimy layer that feels like moss), and I stubbed my toes on some rocks. Then David let me borrow his snorkeling mask and tube, and I learned how to snorkel. It worked surprisingly well. And there were ALL sorts of fish: some little yellow and blue striped ones, and a bigger yellow one shaped like a butterfly, and a large white angel fish, and some other white or transparent fish that were hard to see, and some more just like them only with neon blue and yellow strips down their backs... well, okay, I'm not very technical :D I'll poke around online and see if I can find a list of tropical fish and their names, and get back to you. Then we went out and had some local food from the stalls: bacalaito, which is essentially a deep fried flat bread stuffed with little bits of cod that you couldn't taste; and hot dogs (loaded with meat, potato strings, cheese, ketchup, and mayonnaise... ugh, I thought I was going to die of cardiac arrest, though it was tasty); and piraguas, essentially shaved ice with syrup flavor, like snow cones. We went grocery shopping on the way home to pick up some essentials and I started to notice that I'd pinked out at the beach. Well when I got home and took a shower (it took forever to get all the sand off... how the heck did it get under my suit??), I discovered I was more than pinked. I'm pretty crispy, to the point where it's a bit uncomfortable to move my arms too much and wearing my backpack hurts like hell. I'll probably peel in a day or two. Sunday was spent goofing off on the computer and watching TV. At about 4 or maybe 5 in the afternoon, the rain started. We normally have afternoon thunderstorms here but this was a really big one. the lightning was tremendous, the rain torrential; we live on the top of a big hill, after all, and some of the strikes were pretty close. The power kept flickering on and off, and we lost the cable tv and the internet at various times. This morning I got up extra early so I could come in and get some work done. Instead, I ended up heading down the hill and taking a walk around the telescope. The ground shield is enormous! four or five times my height (maybe more, I'm no good at estimating). I got close enough to the telescope to touch a panel (exhibit gleeful squee here). I hope to go every morning; it's a kilometer circumference, so that makes for a nice walk, plus the climb up the hill afterwards is good for me too. Labels: Arecibo |
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***Tbook1 (Time and Chaos, needs a new name, needs to be edited) ***Book of Sun (Just needs to be edited. Tis a Nano novel) ***Book of Whispers part 1 (Does not jive at all with part 2; needs to be rewritten to fit and to have less suckage) ***Book of Whispers part 2 (Needs some rehaul editing, needs some loose ends tied up, needs to fit) ***Book of Whispers part 3 (Needs to be finished... then needs to die o.o Not sure if I need a third part in the series) ***Dium's Story (Needs a point, progress, anything... needs to be integrated into Tbook1, since that is what it is a part of, mainly) ***Trio Story with Jackie and Louise (Maybe we should get together and work on this, guys) ***Demon Story (This is working out pretty good so far. I like the plot, it's a bit convoluted, and the characters are interesting) ***New Witch Story (It's only 30 pages long, dang) ***Dragon's Voices (This has SO much potential! wee!) | |
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