The night sky is the blackest black imaginable. It is like being submerged in an ocean of India ink. And with little or no ambient light, the stars and planets are so brilliant they look artificial. Like they’ve been manipulated with liberal use of the contrast and intensity buttons in a Photoshop program. The moon and other astrological bodies appear super-sized. I gather it is because we are closer to them than we are back home. Maybe being so close to the equator puts us in closer proximity to the stars. It’s just a theory I pulled out of my astrological studies but it’s the best I can conjure up at the moment. One thing is for sure, it definitely feels closer to Heaven here in Playas del Coco.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Day and Night
The morning is ushered in to a cacophony of avian calls which begin at first light. Coos, hoots, chirps, cackles, screeches and specialized whistles fill the air in what is surely a competition of grand proportions among the feathered inhabitants of El Coco. As this clamoring for the attention of the opposite sex subsides, humming birds enter the scene, floating like soap bubbles in front of bright blossoms then suddenly kicking in their after-burners they streak away in a blur that defies tracking by the human eye.
The night sky is the blackest black imaginable. It is like being submerged in an ocean of India ink. And with little or no ambient light, the stars and planets are so brilliant they look artificial. Like they’ve been manipulated with liberal use of the contrast and intensity buttons in a Photoshop program. The moon and other astrological bodies appear super-sized. I gather it is because we are closer to them than we are back home. Maybe being so close to the equator puts us in closer proximity to the stars. It’s just a theory I pulled out of my astrological studies but it’s the best I can conjure up at the moment. One thing is for sure, it definitely feels closer to Heaven here in Playas del Coco.
The night sky is the blackest black imaginable. It is like being submerged in an ocean of India ink. And with little or no ambient light, the stars and planets are so brilliant they look artificial. Like they’ve been manipulated with liberal use of the contrast and intensity buttons in a Photoshop program. The moon and other astrological bodies appear super-sized. I gather it is because we are closer to them than we are back home. Maybe being so close to the equator puts us in closer proximity to the stars. It’s just a theory I pulled out of my astrological studies but it’s the best I can conjure up at the moment. One thing is for sure, it definitely feels closer to Heaven here in Playas del Coco.
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