Stupokses babblensis
It's been an eventful two days for me with the Wild Things.
The boredom of not finding stuff at the Merawang beacon today was compensated with the experience of catching the great 'horde' of swimming fireworms in the water at the pontoons' edge at Raffles Marina. There were plenty of leaf-porter crabs and also a cute lil' bob-tail squid!! In any case, it's always a fantastic time out there with the Wild Things.
Yesterday at Hantu, we got frogfish, one of which was quite a big fella, we got a small lil' octopus crawling out of water.. actually a few of those and handsome Mr. blue-tailed shrimp, who was happily burrowing...our very own prawnstar!! Well, less happily, we were all feasted on alive by swarms of sandflies and the literally inhaling the swarms of the flies, all attracted to us because of the lighting we were carrying.
Well, this blog post will be reasonably short, a summary of the past two days... soon I'll be back at base camp logging stuff and packing for tomorrow's trip to CFT... where we'll all accumulate another round of sandfly bites. *itch*
Like on any trip, we wonder if we'd get a stupoks relapse/attack, or a casualty... today, it was Xinghua, who got cut real bad by rocks and coral... Sigh.. it is ZERO trips without casualty!! The counter has been reset. Let's hope we can hit another ten trips before something else happens *touch wood*
I'll end my post with this:
Every trip out, we learn new stuff about something or someone or even ourselves.. for e.g., Stargazers have venomous spines near their pectoral fins and you SHOULD NOT kick them on their sides. Or that I talk a heck of a lot. *LOL* *babble babble* and sometimes I don't make much sense... I think it's the variant of stupoks I've got.. Stupokses babblensis.
Speaking of which, I need to do a study on the different variants of the virus..and their symptoms. Different WildFilms Crew have different strains and hence different symptoms... *oooooh....*
The boredom of not finding stuff at the Merawang beacon today was compensated with the experience of catching the great 'horde' of swimming fireworms in the water at the pontoons' edge at Raffles Marina. There were plenty of leaf-porter crabs and also a cute lil' bob-tail squid!! In any case, it's always a fantastic time out there with the Wild Things.
Yesterday at Hantu, we got frogfish, one of which was quite a big fella, we got a small lil' octopus crawling out of water.. actually a few of those and handsome Mr. blue-tailed shrimp, who was happily burrowing...our very own prawnstar!! Well, less happily, we were all feasted on alive by swarms of sandflies and the literally inhaling the swarms of the flies, all attracted to us because of the lighting we were carrying.
Well, this blog post will be reasonably short, a summary of the past two days... soon I'll be back at base camp logging stuff and packing for tomorrow's trip to CFT... where we'll all accumulate another round of sandfly bites. *itch*
Like on any trip, we wonder if we'd get a stupoks relapse/attack, or a casualty... today, it was Xinghua, who got cut real bad by rocks and coral... Sigh.. it is ZERO trips without casualty!! The counter has been reset. Let's hope we can hit another ten trips before something else happens *touch wood*
I'll end my post with this:
Every trip out, we learn new stuff about something or someone or even ourselves.. for e.g., Stargazers have venomous spines near their pectoral fins and you SHOULD NOT kick them on their sides. Or that I talk a heck of a lot. *LOL* *babble babble* and sometimes I don't make much sense... I think it's the variant of stupoks I've got.. Stupokses babblensis.
Speaking of which, I need to do a study on the different variants of the virus..and their symptoms. Different WildFilms Crew have different strains and hence different symptoms... *oooooh....*
6 Comments:
Don't you mean pr0nstar? ;)
Pris, your verbalisations, usually to no one in particular (or else people are just not responding verbally... I silently chuckle sometimes!) are a very welcome amusement, and I don't mean that in a bad way...
Like when you talk about how you used to cook them shrimps where you caught 'em when you were younger. And seeing the size of the ones we saw, YUM!
Also, at least we know where you are in the dark. :D
Pris, I think we can forget the countdown to "number of casualty-free days" for the team. This number is unlikely to be a double digit.
It's probably more meaningful to do a "Casualty of the Week" thing. Stupox (all variants) and just the weirdness of our trips appear to indicate that injuries will be the norm rather than the exception.
This week, it's Xinghua who "wins" the award. Poor Xinghua. His coral cuts are quite impressive though.
Someone suggested this afternoon we can have an award for the "Casualty of the Year". And just hope that it won't have to be awarded post-humously...
...ANOTHER way to die...
Hmm. Maybe we could document all these (mis)adventures and make a movie - SINGAPORE WILDFILMS: DIE ANOTHER WAY.
And the poster will have everyone posing back-to-back James Bond-style with cameras for guns.
Speaking of Dying Another Way... Does carrying a bloated catfish across a canal, and having the pec fins break in your hands count too? =P
Hmmm....
Forgot to mention that in my post.
Nothing happened... So I guess we won't mention any more of it?
I COULD edit the thing to include it....
The Near Death episodes can be quite spectacular...
e.g., "Is it a Cone Shell? Nah! Let's impress Tom by holding it next to our face!"...oops, guide books suggest it WAS a Cone Shell. Eeks. Oh Wait. No, it's NOT a Cone Shell...
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