Silky Days

Tobi Bernhard · Issue 107, Mar/Apr 2019 · pp. 52–56

Products mentioned: Nikon D800, Subal housing, Sea & Sea D1, Olympus TG5, SB910

While summer days in the old country might evoke images of flowery meadows, soul warming sun beams, fluffy sheep clouds and a picnic in a wicker basket, to us tropical creatures summer or “cyclone season” spells sweltering heat, suffocating humidity, towering cloud formations pregnant with flood rains and three cold showers a day just so you don’t pass out. I love the cyclone season here in Fiji. It is full of drama, adventure and passion. It is decay and the renewal of life. If you stand still long enough you grow mould yourself. Underwater, there is all the annual spawning and breeding going on, coral, palolo worm and fish. Every summer I spot another juvenile critter I have never seen before. Weather forecasting algorithms are as trustworthy as a gypsy with a crystal ball at this time of the year. Then there are the storms of course but as an undying optimist you could say that even t…