Day Fifty-Seven: Beach Resort, Sans Beach

8/9/14, 6:09 AM PDT

We went to a beach resort today.

Pretty pretty.

Kinda reminds me of a Wes Anderson film. If you squint.

Nice place, huh? Unfortunately, the water pretty brown and murky and I watched an episode of "River Monsters" right before we left so I didn't really feel like testing those waters for any snakehead fish or supergiant piranhas or stuff like that and neither did the rest of my extended family, who also went with us.

Instead, we opted for the nice, chemically-treated, cryptid-free pool. It was still a bit silty, but acceptable compared to the Black Lagoon levels of visibility that the beach had.

Yeah... no.

Brought my GoPro along for the ride. Took a few pictures of the place. Pardon the excessive fisheye use, there was no display on my GoPro and I wasn't quite sure what I was getting in frame, so I went with fisheye to make sure I got everything.

They had a poolside bar, which was pretty cool except they never sold anything.

I was so hungry too...

Making use of the camera's waterproof case, I took this picture of my sister, who just recently learned how to swim.

Good enough to be on a Nirvana cover.

My cousin's cousins also took a liking to the camera. They grabbed it and took a few selfies with it.

Normal.

Obligatory "silly" photo.

Despite the silty water, they also tried underwater selfies.

It worked... decently?

They all look like they're in pain.

I got in there too, took a big ol' group shot.

One big happy, first-cousin-once-removed family. I think.

The majority of the time, I played with my adorable niece, Ice, though.

Me and the happiest block of frozen water ever.

She tried to push me over.

She seemed to take a liking to this game that involved yanking my hair and pulling me underwater until I said sorry for something minor like splashing her with water. At one point I was under for 45 seconds and she panicked when she thought she killed me so she pulled me out of the water manually.

Dangerous? Maybe. But how do you expect to have fun without government terrorist interrogation methods?

"ARE YOU HAVING FUN?! ARE YOU?!"

At night, the pool lit up. And not just the boring white lights either. It flashed between red, green and blue so quickly that if Japanese kids were in the pool, they would've thought they were watching the Porygon episode of Pokémon.

I'm still trying to figure out whether or not that last joke is offensive. While I decide, have this gif of me showing you exactly what I mean by "epilepsy hazard."

Basically this.

Alright, I caught that video right when the lights started slowing down, but it's trippy regardless. Equally trippy? They had water arches that had LIGHTS THAT RAN THROUGH THEM. You know how optic fibers work? Yeah, same principle but with beautiful glasslike water. It's hard to put into words, so just look at this gif I made.

Trust me, if I knew how to make HD gifs, I would.

I also got a pic of one of the lights after I briefly cut the water.

Oh no, it didn't explode in midair, that's a water droplet messing with
the picture.

Let's end with a few other cool shots I took.

Notice my cousin in the background, stepping on a poor seal.

No, his head isn't curved like that, it's a fisheye lens.

RFotD: I have a ton of these to post.

SGAT: None really.