me, getting fatter and fatter

me and "little" olivier	raw abalone appetizer
luke-dog, giving in to his vices

Guess who is in a black-and-white mood? Yep: me. Why is it that Yahoo! dies at the most inopportune times? Yahoo! and MSN Messenger down at the same time? Hrmph.

Anyway, I'm not convinced that the above photos are "better" in black and white than they were in color, but... oh well. It's different. They match today's mood. I wish I had more to say, but I don't. It rained today, and both Luke and I were sort of in a BLAH mood. Our helicopter ride to photograph the island was canceled, but we're supposed to go tomorrow. Luke slept all day, and I worked, both inside on this little mattress thing I sit on in the hut, and out in front of the pool. People must think I'm a big nerd, working on a notebook out here in Bora Bora. Hah! They're right.

I dove Hapiti today, which was pretty neat. I was totally narc'ed out at 42 meters in depth, and my Ikelite housing failed, as it has been doing at depth. The ISO button gets stuck pressed in (only while deep), so I can't change the aperture anymore. Actually, it prevented me from shooting anything. Hapiti dive site was a huge, open, sloped coral garden. There weren't a lot of large fish, but there were tons of little guys swimming around. We saw a hiding lionfish, some lone tuna, a huge napolean wrasse, and a couple of sharks (a white-tip was scared by us, shooting off at an incredible, awe-inspiring speed).

I figured out that if I don't ground myself here in the hut, I don't get shocked as much. Getting shocked sucks. I don't mind a bit of static every once in awhile, but alternating current blows.