Good Morning Covid-19

Well, the latest big news is the Coronavirus. This is like nothing we’ve seen before. We’ve seen diseases come and go, but we haven’t seen this type of reaction. Bar and restaurants are closed. Beaches, hotels, stores are deserted. I’m outa a job. Filed for unemployment. Don’t know what’s next.

The Short Film

When it began, the Big Quarantine, I was in St. Petersburg visiting, Oppi, an ol’ friend, and his girlfriend Thu. They live together in an apt on the water. I had so much fun up there. I went there mainly to film his cat for the short film “La Petit Sink”, which is a parody on old French black and white films. His cat is Bellini and really likes humans. He slept next to me every night I was there.

Fishing!

But let me tell you that more fun than that was the fishing. So we took his raft out and tied up under a bridge where the bay meets the open ocean, at famous John’s Pass. The fish were biting and we caught a bunch of fish, 15, but threw them all back. And then a bunch of dolphins were all around our raft. They never left!, because there was so much fish. Oppie had a fish on and we thought, “Oh, another fish.” and Thu and I continued talking. More than once Oppie said, “No really, I got a fish.” From the way he was struggling I could tell it was a big fish. Then suddenly, “I see it!” Thu screamed. She said it was big and dark and round. Oppie continued reeling it in under duress. Then his line broke. I turned around and saw that a few boats were parked behind us and many people with cameras. They all let out a groan in unison. We groaned too. We caught 15 fish that day and threw them all back. All back?! What were we thinking! We should’ve kept at least one.

It’s 5 o’clock somewhere

The next day we went to a bayside park (more like a nature area next to the road) that’s known as The Redneck Riviera. Each person or persons had a spot to back their car up to the water and chill. We dropped acid and rafted. We saw a dolphin and a hug manatee pass right under us. It was almost as big as our raft and moving slow. We would have never known it was passing if I hadn’t barely seen it. And we caught a catfish. The acid at first gave us an upset stomach, then it turned into a relaxing body high. We were laughing hysterically talking about life. I haven’t laughed that hard since I was getting stoned with fellow teachers in Harbin, China.

Conclusion

Now I’m back in Miami. Spending a lot of time at the apartment and going out everyday to fly the drone. And we’ve been bbq-ing and drinking at night.
We don’t know how long it’ll last. I’m thinking of taking a road trip somewhere. People are nervous. I, on the other hand, think everything will be fine. You can only run away from a mother nature for so long.

Droning at John’s Pass