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.
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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