The ocean is scary...

I just finished watching the documentary "Oceans" on one of my movie channels. I think they may have shown this movie in the IMAX theater at the Bob Bullock Museum in downtown Austin a couple years ago (and maybe mom and dad and Rick's mom and dad saw it?), but I never saw it. And while I'm completely terrified of large bodies of water and hate boats unless they're big enough to have restaurants and shops and casinos, I'm also absolutely fascinated by what goes on underneath all those mysterious waves...

And the movie was quite interesting, with some amazing, beautiful underwater cinematography. But as with most documentaries about the natural world, it showcased not only the "good," but also the "bad." Baby sea turtles that hatched on land were frantically scuttling toward the ocean and then plucked from the sand by hungry sea birds... fish with unusual camouflage talents snapped up smaller, unsuspecting fish for dinner... one strange-looking lobster/shrimp-type thing proved to be extremely territorial when it attacked a crab that dared to venture too close to its den -- Lobster-Shrimp ripped the crab's leg right off, then head-butted it into submission and tossed it on its back to die... it was like the Little Mermaid ordered a mob hit...

So you can imagine how I may have burst out laughing when the credits rolled and I saw the usual, "no animals were harmed in the filming of this motion picture." What?? Um, am I the only one who saw those baby turtles get eaten??? I'm not even sure I'll be able to go to a seafood restaurant with a lobster tank again -- those lobsters can get MEAN... I think the better wording may have been, "no animals were harmed BY HUMANS in the filming of this motion picture." I would've believed that...

Anyway... the Blogger site was down for a while yesterday and this morning, so even though I took these fabulous, stunning, one-of-a-kind skyline pictures last night, I wasn't able to post them until now:

I took these as a storm was rolling in last night, and I was hoping to maybe catch some lightning -- as you can see by the last picture, I was using a setting that kept the shutter open for 15 seconds. But all I managed to catch was some swirly street lights (apparently I moved the camera just as the 15 seconds was up... :))

Okay, I'm off to check under my bed for scary lobster hit-men...