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habagat

Posted on September 25, 2005 @ 12:31 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, fear, philippines, travel, wordpress

habagat wind conrad aynaku illustration adobe

Wet Monsoon blows in the Indian Ocean from South West, from April to October. The rainy season which comes with it, turns out to be a bit oppressive. Further East, in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines, (where the western wind is called habagat), the dullness is regularly broken up by terrific typhoons!
Joseph Conrad’s narrative “The mirror of the sea” is a perfect account:
”The sky of the Westerly Weather is full of flying clouds…coming thicker and thicker till they seem to stand welded into a solid canopy, upon whose grey face the lower wrack of the gale, thin, black, and angry-looking, flies past with vertiginous speed.”

Illustration Friday’s topic is: wind

escape…

Posted on September 19, 2005 @ 8:42 am by massimo | Filed under: beach, blog, travel, wordpress

fullmoon puja srilanka buddhism aynaku illustration adobe

A full-moon night spent on a beach is a lovely way to escape daily routine. Full-moon parties are widely practiced World-round and South East Asia makes no exception. If you travel that area and you wish to be involved in something different, don’t miss Puja day. On of the third lunar month (March) offerings are brought to Buddhist shrines. In Unawatuna, Sri lanka, there is a temple at the far end of the beach. It was magic for me to watch a few smiling people floating flowers on the still and gleaming surface of the sea…such a beautiful motion!

Illustration Friday ’s topic is escape

depth

Posted on September 11, 2005 @ 7:46 am by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, diving, wordpress

depth sea bottom blue aynaku illustration adobe

Have you ever tried deep diving? Puffing and puffing, you get somewhere – let’s say at a depth of fifty meters – and suddenly realize that the bottom is some hundred meters more underneath your belly…absolutely too much for an ordinary human being !
Once you have made land, puffing and puffing, and you keep on thinking about your dive, well then you have to be puzzled! Depth has puzzled you because of the awareness of its immensity…

Illustration Friday’s topic is depth…

paraw

Posted on September 6, 2005 @ 9:11 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, philippines, sailing, wordpress

Typically Visayan, paraw is a fantastic sailing boat! Two bamboo outriggers and the coconut mid-body make up the craft. Everything is fixed firmly by strong fishing-line. Mainsail and jib, cut away from …