Guppies and stars

The stars on the water keep on mesmerizing me. They're so gorgeous - and with every flicker cut straight into my heart making me drunk with a feeling I can't describe but probably could come close to feeling 'high' (on drugs, from what I heard of it). The clip lost quality though when uploading to youtube and the stars can't be seen as clearly as on the original clip.

It was cold when I left the house and I was dressed "flimsily" but a quick pace kept me warm. When I arrived at the Nemaal I was surprised to see the aurea at the end of the horizon over the sea was still there. It has been there on the two previous evenings when I watched the sunset - but had thought it had to do with the sunset - however, as photo 1 shows, it is there in broad daylight as well....

The second thing that caught my eye was a small 'cloud' of 'dirt'. However when I looked closer I discovered those were guppies (which are just born fish in dutch). I bought my capuccino - I climbed over the balustrade to have a look at a poor dead and very unusual looking crab down the rocks and walked on to the end of my mezah to find...........................

hundreds, literally hundreds.... of guppies exactly there where I usually sit myself down. They are so gorgeous. Their microscopically small tails are transparent and their tiny little bodies look like dark and lighting pinpoints. Later on I descended into the water upon 'hot advice' of one of my fishermen and they didn't swim away but floated around me :-) Soooooooooo sweet. (photo 2)

It is a terrible pity my camera couldn't register the glittering of the surface of the sea which happened each time a wave swayed them up and down with him. It was simply breathtaking to see that and gave me, inexplicably, a very happy feeling and also a feeling of solemn awe as to how such little and very "unintelligent" (or uncomplicated) creatures can bring forth such a magnificent beautiful effect.

Let it also be registered for me that today I picked up a live fish by its tail for the first time. I saw him helplessly fluttering around in the very shallow puddle of water at the middle of my mezah under the burning sun - and since I didn't succeed in picking him up with my paper napkin (from Aroma) I had no choice but grab him with my bare vingers. I've never seen a fish swim so fast as this little guy after I had thrown him back into the sea :D