Sea of solitude mermaid
"Biodiversity Special Ring of Fire" Maumere / Alor / Banda Sea / AmbonĪmbon – If you love crazy critters, Ambon is hard to beat. "Biodiversity Super Special" Maumere/ Alor / Banda Sea / Raja Ampat. Bali / Komodo / Maumere (Maumere is on Flores).
#SEA OF SOLITUDE MERMAID WINDOWS#
Camera table and photo facilities are appreciated by photographers.ĭelicious Thai, Indonesian and western meals are served in the restaurant which offers large windows to enjoy the impressive views while dining or enjoying a delicious BBQ.Ģ x 4.7 metre RIBs with ladders & 40hp Yamaha enginesĭive itineraries on Mermaid II include the most popular regions of Indonesia and are extensive in their variety: Bali-Komodo-Bali. Six camera rinse tanks means your valuable equipment is well looked after. Mermaid I has a huge comfortable dive deck and a dive platform that provides divers with easy exits and entries to the dive boats ensuring a relaxing dive experience. The huge purpose built dive deck and wide stern dive platform with two exit ladders and fresh water showers are a diver’s dream. Two more cabins are located on the lower deck. The 6 cabins located on the main deck offer lovely, large sea-view windows & doors opening onto the exterior gangway.
#SEA OF SOLITUDE MERMAID FULL#
On this deck, too, is the large indoor dining area and the cozy salon where you will find a TV/DVD and music center as well as an extensive library and full range of marine life books. A fully covered exterior lounge is found at the stern end of the bridge deck (upper deck) and you'll find additional cushioned benches just in front of the bridge, an ideal spot for watching the spectacular islands "sail" past you. The entire top deck of this vessel is comprised of a fabulous sun deck with sunshade and cushioned sun beds, a great place to relax. History, however, tells us that the best way of seeing them is keeping them in mind -there lays the key to recover these beings that gather the two most foreign worlds of all and reconcile beauty with monstrosity.Wines & beers (you may bring your own spirits, if you wish) Our encounters with them are less and less common perhaps due to survival, emotional hardening or technological evolution ––but we have become deaf to their song. And even if hugely desired by the solitude of sailors, merpeople have gradually disappeared due to our change of manners. To hold folklore close to us is to make a call to all its creatures. What’s peculiar is that these men, aboard their luxurious ships, had the mermaid figure so present that -whether manatees or not- these would appear before them here and there during their navigations. It is well known that Christopher Columbus, for instance, reported to have seen mermaids during his journey through the Dominican Republic, although they were later thought to be manatees. The number of mermaid sightings boomed with the arrival of the Age of Discovery several explorers described them as having admirable, venerable features of “otherness”. An excellent trap for humankind’s sensitive weaknesses.ġ6th century writer and cartographer Olaus Magnus, whose famous Carta Marina obsessively catalogued the many monsters of Scandinavian seas, noticed that fishermen believed that if you catch a mermaid “and do not presently let them go, such a cruel tempest will arise, and such a horrid lamentation of that sort of men comes with it, and of some other monsters joining with them, that you would think the sky should fall.” But the mermaid was not always an incredibly sexy and terrible myth (as Odysseus well knew when he ordered his crew to tie him to the ship’s mast and cover his ears with wax so he would not fall victim to the irrepressible desire to go with them when he heard their song) this prodigious animal has suffered as many mutations as is fit for imagination, and before being a myth it posed a great threat. ––As irresistible to us as we are to her. She is a chimera that embodies the two components of a perfect oxymoron: water and earth, beauty and bestiality. Regardless of Disney wanting to redeem her from her essence, we all know that a mermaid is as enchanting as she is pernicious. If one thing characterizes a sea nymph it’s her voice and her terrible infatuation with us, the sailors.
She, like a true reflection of man, has a voice, and her voice is so irresistible because it speaks for the fishes and for the sea, which move silently, keeping a secret. For the first there are “seahorses” and “sea elephants”, and for us there is a chimeric and elusive version: mermaids. It was a ubiquitous ancient belief which stated that every terrestrial animal has to have its oceanic counterpart, and humans are not the exception. The ocean is our alternate world, the most foreign of them all and, therefore, the most populated by mirrors and speculations.