June 25, 2012

June 25, 2012  Oh, wow!  Now  you should check out the NE early morning sky.  From the horizon up at an angle: Aldebaran, Venus, Jupiter and the Pleiades. Thank God for the glory of the universe!  For some reason my Night Sky iPad app calls Venus Taurus most of the time. Is this a glitch in the program or is Venus also known as Taurus or just in the constellation Taurus now?  


We came into this lagoon on a Saturday and for as far as we could see there was nothing but sea, sky, motus, palm trees, birds and the occasional leaping fish.  Then we got near the buildings of the pearl farm near where we anchored but, again, nobody.  The only signs of life are a small dim glow on the western horizon at night where there is a small village on the opposite side of the atoll and a far away red flashing light marking the entrance to the pass into this atoll. 


Here's the Monday morning early report for our neighborhood: 3 people left the pearl farm buildings in a skiff to go check their pearl oysters,  big tropical fish hanging around under the boat, 4 Lesser Frigatebirds, 1 Pacific Reef Heron white morph, rainbow in the west, light wind from the N. With binoculars I can see boats at the village 6.5 miles across the lagoon.  I am guessing local skiffs and a fishing boat.

THE SPOTLESS CRAKE is here.  My 12 year long search continues.  As you know, everyone in our family has seen the Spotless Crake except me!  Barry has taken up telling outlandish lies to tease me about it.  "I just saw a Spotless Crake run into those bushes!  Did you see it?"  Or, "A Spotless Crake just flew over". (They are basically flightless.)