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Ok so I finally finished scanning all my underwater pics from Cuba. Scanning negatives takes a reeeaaally long time :/.

You can see all of the ones I uploaded on my flickr page (they’re the last few in that set, scroll down a bit).

Here’s a few that I think are pretty cool (click for larger sizes):

(Most people don’t see it, but there IS an octopus in this picture! Click on it for a larger size. You can see it’s eyes sticking out and the rest body kind there. I guess they kinda suck their legs in and spread out or something when they’re hiding in a hole :/.)

(Some funky flat fish with eyes on the top of its head. Kinda cool cause it’s dark around the edges while it’s swimming, but changes colour to blend in with the ocean floor when it stops).

As you can see the quality is terrible. These were taken with cheap plastic underwater cameras. We got 3 of them for free from Nolitours when we went to Mexico. They’re “focus-free”, which quite literally means what it says. You just have to guess the distance you’re taking a picture at, and anything closer than or beyond the predetermined focus distance will turn out blurry. Hell, they don’t even use batteries! You rewind the film by turning a plastic wheel thingy. Meh, better than nothing I guess.

So uh, I just came home from a week in Cuba today. It was really awesome, except the flight. We were supposed to be flying on a Cubana Airlines A320 plane, but for some unknown reason (I’m guessing that plane broke down so they decided to borrow another one from a different airline), we had to go on this really really crappy Boeing 727 (similar to the Tupolev Tu-154). This is a plane from the mid-1960’s, and Boeing stopped manufacturing them in the 1980’s. I didn’t think I’d ever have to fly on something this crappy in Canada. The only comparable experience I have is the Il-62, but that’s an ancient Soviet plane so it owns. Anyways, the airline was “Flair Air”, some charter airline that nobody’s ever heard of. They have a total of 2 planes, only one of which is a passenger plane - the Boeing 727-200 that I traveled on. Here’s a picture (from their official site):

Here’s another picture of it (that I took at the airport in Holguin).
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