Waterspout
It was a fairly miserable day out today, surveying Raffles Lighthouse - the sky was overcast, turning to rain, and then even heavier rain, to the point where we felt we were in the Bermuda Triangle, with fog all all round us, and no sight of any of the familiar land- or sea-marks. Only our boatman Mr Lee seemed unfazed by the horror movie setting. To top it off, just as the fog encased us in its eerie embrace, we saw this - a waterspout. A fairly big one too. Chay Hoon almost immediately Twittered it (I’m not sure how that form of magic works, even though I signed up on Twitter! :P).
The conditions at Raffles remain overcast (thankfully not drowning-type rain), and the water water was welcome after the slightly shivering cold up top. Things went well until after lunch - Kee Seng and Gina went in and were struggling against a strong current that had built up around us without our realising. We had to abort the dive, leaving much of the deep transect undone. Ah well … such are the challenges of doing field work. We’ll be back to Raffles another day to finish off what we started.