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 here, remembering you, only […]
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Leviathan
A tiny fin breaks the surface as the waves all around flatten in a way that 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 an animal that could […]
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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 now. Closer and closer […]
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Some moments are beyond words, beyond description. In this moment the ocean’s murky gloom fell away as mother brought her newborn calf out of the deep water towards the light and the life-giving air above. In this moment I forgot I was hanging in a vast ocean far away from my everyday life. All that […]
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Twenty metres below us the pair just hung there on the bottom, motionless, a strange stillness in an ever moving ocean. A silhouette against the white sand, too far down to make out their detail, not so deep as to be hidden from our gaze. Almost as if they wanted our attention. It was their […]
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