Sunday 15 November 2009

The World of Nemo






The Ocean, our planets biggest door! With such an abundance of life through that big door it would be easy to put all the 180 shots I have on here, well apart from taking forever and a day to upload them all. I chosen some of the better ones, though my skills with a film camera need a bit of work. The highlight of the weeks diving was by far the whale shark, seriously if anyone needed any inspiration to dive in these waters this is it.

Thailand again Koh Lanta






Not so humid and 5 days diving in water a smidgeon under 30 C and quite clear, these pics were taken on the way out to one of the dives sites and moored up over lunch in front of a cool little beach, the pic of the boat in the evening with the lightning in the background took about 30 shots to catch, but worth the effort me thinks. Every now and again I come across something that makes you stop and go WTF! take the honeymoon life house in this case, and yes it's exactly what it looks like the ideal abode to start ones life together.

And last but not least a pic looking north along the aptly named Long Beach at 4km long it's not hard to find a quiet spot

Malaysia






Hot & humid, is the order of the day here, and pretty much every day from what I can find out lots of rain, well they don't call it the rainy season for nothing. Malaysia became completely independent from the UK on 31st August 1963, and if I'd written this when I was there I'd be able to put more fact into this. The general gist of it goes the Portuguese colonized Malaysia in 1511, followed by the Dutch in 1641 then by the British in 1786 and finally by the Japanese during the second world war, so you could say that haven't had the best deal, when it comes control within their own borders. you can read more at http://www.kinabaluweb.com/malaysia_day.html if your interested.

The pics here are among the few that I have remaining after some thieving robbing scrotum buggered off with my camera, they could have done the decent thing and left the bloody memory card behind. Anyway the cyclo pic was taken in Melaka, nothing too unusual about the bike apart from the flowers and fairy lights, it was the hard core drum & base music blaring out at a volume that would put most XR3i drivers to shame that got me. The photo of the black looking clouds was taken about 15mins before the sky fell down. A most impressive volume of water.

The others are the Petronas towers at night and one in the day where you can see one of the towers has sprouted ears, the last pic is the public park right behind them.