Since many breaks some fish that haunts us. For days, from time to time, you hear a splash! and, looking, all that we have come to see, about five meters from the boat, returning water is ocean after being raised by some and concentrically multitude of waves propagating in the area just dip.
- What do you think is? I asked Pancho-. If a fish, Not small!
The sound generated by the impact with the water it seemed disproportionate to the size of the animals with whom we were finding. It would not be as big as a whale or as small as we used the golden fish. I say used to because it's been days since we fish. Would that perhaps the cause of our lack of fishing? We could not believe the motive and repeatedly commented that either the fish had started-and lost-lures us more effective, or that some night demon fish intended to keep us regime.
A huge silver fish about three feet long stood in the air, rather flying, at least the square of height
Yesterday we heard a new splash but with a big difference, finally saw what caused it. A huge silver fish about three feet long stood in the air, rather flying, at least the square of height. Energetic, vivacious, bright and very large. A tuna?, wonder. Coincidentally, we were both on the outside and we could admire the spectacle: we craved a somersault that neither the boldest creature could, even in your dreams, perform. At last we left doubts spotting what we had so intrigued ..., we even assume that it was Poseidon who stuck his head from time to time to see what this rogresábamos, or perhaps some of the sirens that the Greek god so jealously kept housed under the waves.
Even more impressive was the night of 18 November when, to 06.00 -04.00 daylight hours-after Pancho wake, I made the following comment: "Peter, tonight the sky is a sight. Shooting stars occur incessantly ». I looked skeptical thinking that exaggerated. I did not want to put those hours to paddle. If even the City should have placed in the sea waves…! Well, Pancho told him listless and retired to pay his tribute to Morpheus.
They were shooting stars every ten seconds, or even less, they were collapsing, generally from west to east
Imagine my surprise when, suddenly, potent light reflected on the sea almost blinded me. He came from behind me and when I turned I saw still on the trail of the, might call, fleeting sun. What an awesome! Extraordinary!, exclaimed. But that was not over the party, only comenzaba. They looked like fireworks which start a people's parties. They were shooting stars every ten seconds, or even less, they were collapsing, generally from west to east, but also in other directions. More or less bright, Bright left behind trails of cosmic dust remained in the sky for a long time; shiny, thick or thin and fine. Occasionally, the light beam is extended as a giant flare along the whole dome stellar generating shadows of all objects Ship, and other passenger was his scintillation, apenas perceptible.
Some of them have stuck in my memory. Do not forget those three that occurred in the same direction. He kept light and reflected in the ocean the first, when the latter is offered and at its best. Or that other so thick-diameter similar to the moon-that ran in slow motion one despejadísimo sky illuminating its path across the sea, until then an obscure comprehensive. The outer dome was continually being scratched by ephemeral rockets; Someone would say that enjoyed painting an abstract painting of white lines on a black background.
Small lights that light off so briefly as to remove water from the sea at night
Plankton, yes. All or almost all of us have seen and its appeal has surprised us more than once. Small lights that light off so briefly as to remove water from the sea at night. Each shovelful night, especially when there is no moon, these bulbs lights that fascinate us. But the impression caused by the luminous mantle of the ocean a few days ago was comparable to that of those fleeting stars that previously commented. As the moss to the rocks on the mountain, well covered this phosphor layer ocean. His glare intensified when shaken by the town or the oars of the boat, causing the darkness of time in bright light will turn. It must consist of thousands or millions of particles of plankton, Thanks to the water surface on which we traveled so far seemed to have disappeared and mutated into liquid light. In a way, to aquella luz if the Sentia alive. So sail, incessantly charmed by some new marvel.
Shooting stars hallucinated that night we were produced by a Leonid meteor storm that each 33 years show a peak of activity due to dust caused by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. It was announced in the media for that early 18 November 2001 but we did not know. Sky conditions, clear, dark as pitch, allowed us a privileged observation. Normally, in other stellar events are shooting stars go by 5 meteor when up to 400. That night there was a maximum ZHR rate 1.500 meteors / hour, although the prognosis was that in East Asia could be between 4.000 a 8.000. And 1999 there was a peak of 3.700 meteors / hour. Its illumination is produced on contact with atmospheric particles such sand or marble dust cosmic, the size of a pea, more than 100 miles high, temperatures reaching 1.650 degrees centigrade. I will never know how many of those shooting stars lit the way we. In any case, that night was not to tell but to enjoy admiring.
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