Ok well I found this guy on land but technically he is from the sea.
Monday, August 28, 2006
Not all wildlife walks on land.
Ok well I found this guy on land but technically he is from the sea.
Praying Mantis
Yesterday, I go outside to see how my bug zapper is doing. I look down and see this Praying Mantis. Its facing away from me, but as soon as I see it, it turns its head, and looks right at me. I move, his head follows me. His arms rubbing each other, as if he is deciding how to attack me. I slowly return to the house, and take the picture through the window, thats why its kinda blurry. About an hour we had some of the loudest thunder I have ever heard. It kept me up most of the night, and about twice it physically shook the house. Then we had the light show of lightning. That was fun.
See what happens....
When the wife leaves you alone and you got time, talent (?), a guitar and a camera?
*Apparently not enough computer skills to make YouTube take your video and not speed it up and cut it off by ten seconds. Oh well, at least you get the gist. I still think it looks cool.
*Apparently not enough computer skills to make YouTube take your video and not speed it up and cut it off by ten seconds. Oh well, at least you get the gist. I still think it looks cool.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
More Wildlife
Here is a full size (well pretty much full size, I have only seen a select few bigger) frog and a nice albino gecko. Enjoy
Friday, August 25, 2006
I sorta Rock!
Inspired by TV (of course) heres a little video of me rockin the guitar. I know its not the greatest, I just thought the video itself was pretty cool.
*ok, I don't know why the audio is out of sync, but it is me playing.
*ok, I don't know why the audio is out of sync, but it is me playing.
Like a frog, but smaller
I almost stepped on this guy the other night. I tried to put my hand in one of the pictures so you can get an idea for the scale, basically he is about the size of my thumb.
More B-day photos
The company that took us out parasailing and all that took these pictures. So I took pictures of the pictures, so thats why they don't look as good as a regular picture.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
Bzzzzzztttt POP
This was a great investment. Its the stinger bug zapper. You just set it and forget it. You plug it in, and a few minutes later you just keep hearing bzzzzzzzzt bzzzzzzzzt. After a few days, not only did it attract the moths, but it attracted the frogs. You can see one in the pic below. They now gather round the zapper and eat the warm carcasses. Its now a self cleaning bug zapper!
Birthday Part 2
And here is the cake. Christine got chocolate cake, with oreo's, whip cream, and extra whip cream on the side. What a lucky lady.
That last picture is what I (Christine) had just after breakfast. I couldn't and didn't want to wait for the cake. It looked so good... and it tasted good too. I think I will have some more now, I can its my birthday. This time he is not going to put ALL 28 candles on the cake. It was a small bon-fire in the middle of the day here on the isle.
That last picture is what I (Christine) had just after breakfast. I couldn't and didn't want to wait for the cake. It looked so good... and it tasted good too. I think I will have some more now, I can its my birthday. This time he is not going to put ALL 28 candles on the cake. It was a small bon-fire in the middle of the day here on the isle.
Birthday Part 1
Because the weather is so fickle here, we decided to do a little birthday outing yesterday, even though it was the day before Christine's b-day. That way we were ensured the good weather. We went to a little beach club place, that was 110% Japanese. Seriously. We were the only two Caucasian people there, the entire time. Well except for Captian Ron. No he didn't have an eye patch, but he was pretty much the same type of guy. But that's later.
First we got a kayak, and tried to row our way out to sea. But, the water is only one to three feet deep depending on where you are because of sand or coral, and its like that for at least two hundred yards out from the coast (the picture of me posing for the Gun Show illustrates how deep the water is, and ya Im ripped, so ripped I got two chins to support my huge head). So we would row row row ( by we I mean I) and boom, hit the sand. So I'd get out and pull us to deeper water. Then row row row, boom, get out and tow. Finally we get out to sea, where they have a little raft out there to tie up our kayaks. So we tie up the kayaks and go snorkeling. The fish are not afraid and come right up to your face. We do that for about an hour or so then go in and kinda lay in the sun and dry off.
Ok we need to stop this tall tales telling right here. This is Christine speaking now and I believe I did row sometimes. I was going through the motions 95% of the time and possibly not have much of any affect on our forward motion. When we did get scuttled I too got out of the kayak and pulled Adam while he just laid there in the boat doing nothing. We not nothing, he was babblering something about my leading us into the shallow waters and beaching us a couple hundred yards from shore many a times. But I did get out a few times and pull him. Ok back to his version...
Then we get on a bus which takes us to the Marina. We get off the bus and they break the couples up into sets of three to go on the boats. We get on the boat with two Japanese couples and head out. This is where we met Capt. Ron. He is from Anaheim, and when asked why he is on Guam, he stated he got stranded here 11 years ago. He said it was a long story so we didn't press him. But he did enjoy talking to us, because I think he only gets Japanese customers all day, he even knew a little Japanese, such as put on your helmet, or get a lifejacket etc.
The parasailing is awesome, its not just one person strapped to a chute, its two people in a ferris wheel type contraption. We got up to about 150 feet in the air, then Capt Ron would cut the motor, we would slowly drift down toward the ocean and right before we hit the water he would gun it and we'd snap and shoot back in the air.
Then when we got back down, the Japanese people already had helmets on. They were going to go on this tube thing, that gets pulled by the boat, like a banana raft, but with two sides, so you can sit side by side. Well since we already had such a report with Capt Ron, Christine asked him if we could go on that, he said if they found out they would charge him, but if we don't tell anyone, then he will let us go. They put the Japanese people out on the tube, took their picture, then pulled them in so we could get on (no evidence of us in the picture). Man what a ride. He kept doing loops and circles so we would hit the wake of the boat and just fly up in the air. Christine and I caught some serious air and ate a lot of water but it was really fun.
Some of the pictures are a little blurry, but thats because its one of those disposable underwater cameras, so bear with it.
Christine says: my favorite is the long black thingy on the sand. It looks like a huge caterpillar with huge spikes all over it. It walks around like one too moving in a wave like manner. I told Adam to touch it but he wouldn't- like I was going to do something that stupid.
First we got a kayak, and tried to row our way out to sea. But, the water is only one to three feet deep depending on where you are because of sand or coral, and its like that for at least two hundred yards out from the coast (the picture of me posing for the Gun Show illustrates how deep the water is, and ya Im ripped, so ripped I got two chins to support my huge head). So we would row row row ( by we I mean I) and boom, hit the sand. So I'd get out and pull us to deeper water. Then row row row, boom, get out and tow. Finally we get out to sea, where they have a little raft out there to tie up our kayaks. So we tie up the kayaks and go snorkeling. The fish are not afraid and come right up to your face. We do that for about an hour or so then go in and kinda lay in the sun and dry off.
Ok we need to stop this tall tales telling right here. This is Christine speaking now and I believe I did row sometimes. I was going through the motions 95% of the time and possibly not have much of any affect on our forward motion. When we did get scuttled I too got out of the kayak and pulled Adam while he just laid there in the boat doing nothing. We not nothing, he was babblering something about my leading us into the shallow waters and beaching us a couple hundred yards from shore many a times. But I did get out a few times and pull him. Ok back to his version...
Then we get on a bus which takes us to the Marina. We get off the bus and they break the couples up into sets of three to go on the boats. We get on the boat with two Japanese couples and head out. This is where we met Capt. Ron. He is from Anaheim, and when asked why he is on Guam, he stated he got stranded here 11 years ago. He said it was a long story so we didn't press him. But he did enjoy talking to us, because I think he only gets Japanese customers all day, he even knew a little Japanese, such as put on your helmet, or get a lifejacket etc.
The parasailing is awesome, its not just one person strapped to a chute, its two people in a ferris wheel type contraption. We got up to about 150 feet in the air, then Capt Ron would cut the motor, we would slowly drift down toward the ocean and right before we hit the water he would gun it and we'd snap and shoot back in the air.
Then when we got back down, the Japanese people already had helmets on. They were going to go on this tube thing, that gets pulled by the boat, like a banana raft, but with two sides, so you can sit side by side. Well since we already had such a report with Capt Ron, Christine asked him if we could go on that, he said if they found out they would charge him, but if we don't tell anyone, then he will let us go. They put the Japanese people out on the tube, took their picture, then pulled them in so we could get on (no evidence of us in the picture). Man what a ride. He kept doing loops and circles so we would hit the wake of the boat and just fly up in the air. Christine and I caught some serious air and ate a lot of water but it was really fun.
Some of the pictures are a little blurry, but thats because its one of those disposable underwater cameras, so bear with it.
Christine says: my favorite is the long black thingy on the sand. It looks like a huge caterpillar with huge spikes all over it. It walks around like one too moving in a wave like manner. I told Adam to touch it but he wouldn't- like I was going to do something that stupid.
Green Thumbs
Here is our garden. Its just starting. Christine dug that whole trench that you see around the entire front yard. I helped a little but she did most of the work. We also planted some seeds for flowers, and garlic chives and onions, and other edibles. That way, when Christine comes back in January everything will have grown (hopefully). While doing my gardening I unfortunately got stung by three bees or wasps, I'm not too sure what they were since I was too busy running away and screaming bloody murder. It was the most intense pain but it only lasted for a little while. The resulting wounds are hideous. Kinda like that flesh eating disease. Ok, not that bad, but they turned pink, like fuscia (I know thats a word, but probably not how its spelled) pink. They are getting better now though, but I do not advise wearing shorts when gardening.
