<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There were no belfries anywhere in sight but that did not stop the fruit eating, wing flapping, throat screeching foxlike locals from taking up residence in the tree next door. For the most part they were good neighbors, kept the music down, their garden tidy and were not partial to dropping … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" There is a blue out there in the open ocean that can’t be described. When that black water is filled with a luminous glow, the bright sunlight reflected by millions and millions of tiny particles suspended. That blue glow, softly caressing, beguiling, comforting me, encouraging me to follow, down and down … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Everything we see around us is relative to everything else we see around us. Small is smaller than big, huge is bigger than large and minuscule is smaller than tiny. All meaningless really without the context of everything we are comparing everything else with. To me this makes macro images so … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" I’m not the only one drawn to the mystery of the nooks and crannies of the world. Just like me these paddlers want to know what’s inside Swallows Cave. Just like me the darkness piques their curiosity, leads them to explore the cracks and the fissures and the places the light … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" We came across a few of these Yellow Paper Wasps, Polistes olivaceus, while in Tonga. A couple hung around our house, often cruising through the un-shuttered kitchen before heading out into the trees again. I do wonder how they came to be here. Did they hitch-hike on some vessel or were … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Blue water fan, a Tongan man, returning to his place of birth. Searching eye, a pirates smile, you’ve chosen to share your self. Ballerina you should have seen him dancing in that blue. Now he’s with me, always with me, tiny dancer in my head. Oh how it feels surreal being … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" A tiny fin breaks the surface as the waves all around flatten in a way they disquiets the soul. Below a dark shape looms beneath the oddly stilled water. Without warning the tiny fin rises to becomes a massive black life-scarred body. Larger and larger until my vision is filled by … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Like a tribal decoration, elegant, ornate and with a geometry only nature could devise you hang there in the evening gloom of a dark and cold sea. Oh so patient with your paparazzi fan, lilting this way and that way you tease me. Some times eager to show your best side … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" At the end of a big day out on the ocean we all get together to eat and to drink and to talk about our adventures. At the end of a big day out on the ocean the boats all get together too. I wonder if there is some hidden spirit … Read more
<a href="/serendipity/" title="Robert's Ramblings" Imagine for a moment you are battleship engaged in some mortal cat and mouse game with an enemy submarine. Suddenly out of the deep blue gloom a long grey torpedo shaped object comes into view heading directly for midships. With no time for evasive maneuvers, counter measures are your only hope … Read more