Its been a long bloom this year, and thicker than anyone can remember. Not only are the sea urchin counts sky-high, but the Crown of Thorn starfish is likely to bloom as well. These are cellphone pics so don’t use the PicLens or slideshow option, just click the first one and navigate from there.
. Howie Severino (GMA News) was doing a documentary on endangered birds called Bye Bye Birdie. Amazingly, they found and filmed a female Turnix worcesteri, the first such pictures/vid of a living specimen in history! Thought to have been extinct, little known information on record, globally isolated only to Luzon….. it was sold the next [...]
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/155286/Arroyo-orders-Boracay-cleared-of-moss MANILA, Philippines — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wants Boracay Island cleared of moss that gathered on the island-resort’s waters.The President gave the order after hosting visiting Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare there last weekend, during which she noticed moss encroaching into the shoreline, a report of online news site Visayan Daily Star [...]
Earth hour is on March 28th, 2009 and everyone is asked to turn of the power for a single hour. All about the environment. If that happens here, somebodies gonna get hurt with an aluminum baseball bat. And damnit, I’m tired of brownouts, I’ll be damned if I’m gonna bow to some hippy protesters. Oh, [...]
Pharaoh ants. Apparently they’re all over the world and Florida too. These are the little insane bastards that appear in hoards about 60 seconds after dropping food. But I cant get rid of them with anything so far and it seems to be normal for them to sidestep regular poisons. The way is to use [...]
dive-monster.com – No Fishing in Boracay GMANews – Boracay off limits to fishers ….The local government of Malay town in Aklan provnce [sic] has declared the waters surrounding the world famous resort island of Boracay permanently off-limits to fishing activities….. ….Report said that fishermen from nearby provinces such as Masbate, Antique and Romblon have been [...]
Think about it, there was almost no chance in hell that any white male was going to beat either a woman or a black guy. They knew the failure was coming, and planned accordingly – in a pretty devious way. They put a very powerful Republican on the international screen. In everyone’s living room, on [...]
You gotta be kidding me, the electricity went out yesterday at 9pm and guess what, …. it’s still out then next day at 4:27pm. That’s 19 solid hours of brownout on Boracay, again. Are they telling anyone? Nope. Excuses? Nope. And now we’re in the pre-Peak Season where the rates dipped a little before Easter [...]
I was sitting in Cocolocos yesterday evening (Boracay, not the resort island) and friend comes over telling how his illness cleared up and he could go diving again, unlike myself. Then he says that out near Virgin Drop, him and the shop manager/instructor of Blue Mango diveshop saw a dolphin just under 2 meters long [...]
Environmental irony: no trash cans on Boracay. Sounds silly but its true, almost. The environmental issues here are always causing an uproar from both residents and tourists alike…yet there are only 2 public trash cans on the island that I know of. Both of those are in D-mall. The only other trash area are the [...]
I completely forgot I had these pictures until I saw Jung post this article. Its about a sponge crab that took a plastic bag as its ‘sponge’. This past month, I saw my first sponge crab (huge! carapace almost a foot wide). It was on a night dive with Dustin of Blue Mango. This thing [...]
..but he did it to himself by accident, with cyanide. Click below the fold for the whole article. (source link) MANILA, Philippines—An American diver was pulled out of salvage operations at the wreck of the M/V Princess of the Stars in Romblon on Friday for numbness and shortness of breath, a suspected case of chemical [...]
It was one of those huge Tokay geckos… about 7 inches long. I woke up this AM and found this. That book is the encyclopedia of recreational diving, about an inch thick and weighs a few pounds. It was on this end of the screen. This morning, it was on the ground, the box had [...]
I now have two of the large Tokay geckos. I used to think it was just a huge mother but now know its a different breed that run around eating all the other smaller breeds of geckos, large bugs and… massive cock roached that are already poisoned to death. Yuppers, I think they’re eating these [...]
All I had time for was this grainy pic just after the large Tokay gecko ate the smaller “ta-ka” gecko (according to how several people are pronouncing the small ones.) That would explain all the missing tails. Geckos eating geckos on Boracay – guess I learn something new every day.
I thought perhaps it was mating season but I’m thinking that the geckos are engaging in war. When they mate, the male pretty much goes Neanderthal and rapes his girl. They might circle a few times then he bites her on the back and holds her still while he does his bidness’. But now, I [...]
I’m not making light of this but it was odd to see this combination of words in an article about the Ferry search being halted because of toxic pesticides that weren’t ever supposed to be on a passenger boat: A handful were positively identified by clothes, scars and jewelery, including a policeman who was returning [...]
Here are some lessons learned after Typhoon Fengshen (frank) Sugar ants can predict typhoons – the recent invasion completely disappeared the morning before the typhoon hit Boracay. They came back at the end of the last rain and are back in force. There is a guy claiming to be a former NASA engineer working as [...]
Ever seen that Freak Show movie where bugs start crawling out of this guys body? Or any one of the multitudes of sci-fi shows about bugs instantly coming out of nowhere? I think the first one was Ants in 1977. Ever since learning just how true the words of my roommate were about not leaving [...]
That big, huge, monsterous gecko that lives in the house…well, she might be dead. I’ve had a rash of cats getting into the house lately from the balcony and even a fight in my kitchen the other night….but last night, I saw the geckos tail. About 3 inches of it anyway. On the floor in [...]
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I really don’t like these things. I thought I was done with them, but no. I goto the can in the middle of the night and what do I see right over the toilet? This bad boy. Its the size of your palm. And yes, they bite people. I’ve told many friends about this and [...]
I really should listen to Henry, always telling me to stay away from Baygon fumes. It’s expensive and kills pretty much anything. Its also a persistent agent and pressured to reach the 12 foot tall ceiling. Which I did today – there was a large roach on the ceiling. We rarely see those anymore since [...]
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