My first ever awesome discovery was with Sir O'connor, when we discovered the world's smallest dinosaur (Oculudentavis). This tiny devil was trapped inside an ember and was found in the highlands of China. This is very similar to our present day, Hummingbird (Trochilidae) whose wings look like bees flapping as they resonate at the speed of 10-15 flaps per second. They can pause in mid air, fly backwards and these smallest migrating birds which weigh less than 3grams are just 7-9 cm long. Our specimen (Oculudentavis) had a head of 0.75 cms. I remembered that the last part of that journey experienced my absence as I broke my leg and even now, I limp with an Iron leg (Iron man, Iron man… na na na.). It is funny how it beeps all the time when I walk through these security checks in airports and Gabe was waiting for me with his hat on his head and hand on his hat.
Two things that I love about Australia, Australian Zoo and the 'Crocodile hunter'! Steve Irwin was the one I would look up to, back when I was a kid. David Attenborough, oh my god, his voice, his soothing voice is not less than IZ's 'Somewhere over the rainbow' and his contributions not less than Darwin's. I see a peculiar difference between Darwin's era or that of Steve and David's era. Darwin had that absolute curiosity to unravel the mysteries of our genetic ancestors, but David and Steve fell for these animals while they were studying them. Those of you who have not known Steve Irwin, let me tell you he never harmed an insect, at least not on TV, when venomous vipers kissed his hand with their fangs, the blood didn't change the awe on his face. He could catch any croc big or small, hence the name crocodile hunter.
While I was lost in my thoughts, Gabe made it clear that while he is here he has to visit the "Hillsong Worship" church. Yep, one thing that I kind of missed to tell you about him was, along with his bone smelling skills, his flamboyant women attracting aura and his stupidity to not see the same, Gabe is awesomely religious. I maintained my distance when he would quickly defend his faith, but who am I to question him? I am a tiny realistic agnostic. I barged to the Zoo, and there you go another check on my bucket list #56. Visit Australian Zoo. After Irwin left us, the mega event of feeding the croc was taken over by his son Rob.
While Gabe was at his church, I thought I would finish drawing my mystic bird. I recalled how my friends made fun of my drawings, because they thought it was redundant and all that i was making out of nature was readily available over the internet. Any who, he came back and met me at the coffee shop and I saw a spark in his eyes. He would not shut up about this woman, he saw outside the church protesting for women's rights. This was Maria or 'Marie' as he would call her. These two love birds stuck together for a long time. As we grew old together, I saw how similar she was to Cel, yet they were so far apart.
He spoke to her, not classic gabe. He asked her out the next day. Maria was a small woman slightly dark in complexion than him but sufficiently older than him. Ahh.. how he would later on tell me that he proposed to her within a month, in the most unromantic way possible. He used to play around her like a child, and she treated him like one and oh yeah, both of them like tea! Great!! She would also lecture me about how my caffeine addiction would kill me someday. Cel on the other hand would have let me have my guilt free coffee (:-/), and she was also tall like me. Ohh. now I get, our Bald eagle felt insecure as he was shorter than Cel. For Maria, everything was absolute, religious extremism, outrageous assumptions and extraordinary possessiveness were her characteristic traits.
Journal entry: 302 - "Maria" Human ~ Species (Homo Sapiens) - I guess
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Religious extremism, outrageous assumptions and extraordinary possessiveness
Gabe's new Girlfriend - dangerously similar thoughts and striking similarities to his Ex-Cel
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I should stop treating my friends like subjects :'D. Anyway, none of this happened yet, it has just been 2 days since Gabe has known his 'Marie'.
While he sipped tea with his new love, I wandered at the coasts of Sydney, where the fires are expected to have started. The black summers here are completely normal, I don't see any relation to a flight crash. There has been a plane crash during the start of the season, and people with less Intelligence on Climatology (like Gabe) would have believed that a plane crash started these fires. Like how a match stick could start a blaze in a haystack.
The flight has fallen into the ocean between the mainland and Norfolk island. It was obvious that I had to go there. The Norfolk are not folk people, just another Island country that got its freedom from the land where the sun never sets (British) Sashi Tharoor joked about this: He says the sun never sets on british empire … well because even god fears the british in the dark … . But I see poverty still exists here, after 68 years they lost their freedom again to become a part of Australia. While I ate my fluffy egg burger on the streets of Norfolk I saw a hungry kid, I made him sit next to me and bought him another burger.
We spoke for some time, and I explained to this 10-year-old kid what an Ornithologist does. What he said to me stuck with me till I died.
Can you imagine a bird, a small insane bird jumping in a campfire? Why would any species kill itself? Forget us for a while, I see this in insects, the praying mantis (Mantodea) female devours its counterpart after mating, and it is proven that the females which eat males produce more eggs than those who won't. My question is why would a Male mantis go, is it not a suicide? I think this is madness, even for animals. Why would he go?
After that day, I had nothing left to know. I gave up on my pursuit of this fairy bird! Unlike Steve who died while he was playing with a few fishes, Stingray (Myliobatoidei) literally pierced him in the heart. The poison was not fatal, but the famous conservationist was stabbed in the heart by his love, the animal kingdom. That as per me, this is a glorious death, similarly APJ Abdul Kalam, who died while giving a presentation, who lived his entire life for his research, died gloriously. I would want to die like them. Doing what I love and dying in the process.
But, I think I can't, I gave up on the Legend of the Phoenix. That kid said, he saw a huge bird on fire. "Did he mistake a plane on fire, for a Firebird?", probably, because he might have never seen a proper plane, he said he never had a proper education. But the thought that our stupid metal bird might have killed our last species of Hope, destroyed my faith. The feather marks found inside the Volcano, which gave me hope that this legendary species still exists, broke with a plane crash.
A cherry on the top, Gabe decided to stay back, he asked Deb to take over for some time, while he spends some time with Maria, and disproves his stupid alien theory. "Sayonara"