Tuesday, 29 November 2011

29th Nov 2011 The Wonder Of Nature - Wave & Cauliflower

Nov 29
Gigantic Waves ~
I have been to Hawaii a couple of times, and never stopped being utterly amazed and mesmerized by how huge and powerful the waves there could be. Sometimes they shot up so very high that they seemed to be literally touching the sky, as you just couldn't see the end of the high points at all. But this photo, the most gigantic ever recorded, shows clearly, with the surfer captured (within the red circle) magnifying, or defining the proportion of a person and the waves.

It's really more than a sport; the strength, the courage, and the feeling of how small and insignificant a human is against nature, kept my eyes glue to the spectacle in awe, and my heart humble.BigWave

Ocean Cauliflower ~
Nature also, very often, shows appearances that are not quite what they seem. The image below has what looks like plants, perhaps more like the vegetable cauliflower, which are in fact exotic species of soft coral, discovered by deep sea divers of the Scubasings Foundation, of the Harlem Islands, in New Guinea. The polyps are really 'animals' generally known as coral that live grouped together to form extensive colonies with appearance of plants, have 'trunks' thick and semi-translucent, and 'branches' on top like trees. Some even reach the height of half a metre.
These are in fact carnivorous animals that use their tentacles to capture the zooplankton (microscopic aquatic animals) that suspended in the water. Billions of them through millions of generations, have been living, constructing and continuing that the structure exceeds the architecture of any other living species, including man.
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