One Thing Can Change so Much

In the documentary film “City Dark” the Director of the film shows the viewer how the light impact us as a whole…In the film Ian Cheney did a segment about Sea Turtles, in the summer in Florida on the beaches the baby sea turtle eggs hatch and suppose to use the Moon to guide them to the ocean so they can live because if they do not make it to the ocean in time they can become a meal for a crab or they can become dehydrated and die. Along the beaches the nature protector person walks along the beaches as the turtle get ready to hatch and try to guide them the correct way, the reason why the turtles get off course it simply because the buildings that is now on the side of the beaches have really bright lights and so the turtles get confused with those light and the moon and if the turtle follows the building light it would be putting itself in harm’s way even though it does not know it. In my opinion the buildings on the beach should not have lights on the back of them that way the turtles will not get confused or the State of Florida needs to build a wall that is tall enough to block out the extra light on the beach but is low enough so people can enjoy “the perfect view” I believe that will help out a lot. But until then I think the nature protector person should continue on saving the sea turtles and that in the summer they should have a camp for little kids to learn about the ocean wild life and that at night during the summer they should go out and save the sea turtles by having little flash lights and steering them in the right way.

Another thing in the documentary was when we lose the night sky we lose so much more. I agree with that simply because now that I look at it when I’m in downtown Houston I cannot see much of the sky I mainly concentrate on the buildings because it’s so bright, don’t get me wrong Houston is really beautiful at night but then when I compare it to night in west Texas and how beautiful the sky was and how peace I felt under the bright sky’s in a sense I did lose something, I feel like I lost my peace. To be when all I see is tall buildings highways and freeways all over the place it makes me feel over whelmed and tension verses when I look around and I see trees, a river, and the clear sky I feel at peace with myself and kind of like a reboot almost. People do not really realize how the night sky really can change just by you driving away from the city lights, and at time they take it for granted but I know now I will not take a beautiful night sky to lightly anymore.

The Late Night Beauty

Before Spring break my teacher told us to think of a time that we had a personal experience with the sky or if we have not had an experience to watch the sky over spring break and blog about the experience. Well for spring break I did not really get out much because I had to work and when I was on my way home there was not any star for me to count due to all the lights I was under and by the time I made it home it was dusty and foggy so I really did not get to see much. Well this previous weekend that past was my little girl birthday along with my cousin’s. Well Saturday Morning I woke up extremely early and wondered if I could see any stars outside…well I looked and because I have a big tree in the front of my window I could only see a few (15 tops) so I went back to sleep. Well after all the running around and stuff for her birthday party I went home and waited for the sun to set to see if I would have been able to see some come out early…well I did not I mainly only seen clouds and the moon that was starting to shine brighter….

Well later on that night on my way out I had to stop at a WHATABURGER because my car started to mess up so while I was waiting I decided to count the starts I did see….it might not have been many (25 tops) but it was more than I seen earlier that morning…While I was sitting there I kept thinking about the video my teacher showed us in class about how the city lights take away our ability to see the sky and the stars and everything else that’s up there. And I could not help but to wonder do the people around me wonder the same thing or are they to wrapped up in there everyday lives to simply take a moment to look up and just wonder is this all we are limited to and are we missing something.

  Well few hours later after my cousin party my family and I was driving back to Baytown from Beaumont and as we were driving I was looking out the window and there was just this BEAUTIFUL view outside (between Beaumont and Winnie) where I saw LITERALLY hundreds of stars just twinkling away…I liked that part of the drive the most because I’ve always loved the sky and just looking at it but I mainly did it during the day and out of all the times I went to Beaumont at night I never actually looked out the window and saw how beautiful it really is like it’s beautiful during the day but in my opinion it was even better that night because of how it look that night I just wanted to  lay down under the sky and count them all…I knew I was not going to be able to do that so I counted as many as I could (I think I counted some of them twice).

But once I made it home I went in the front yard and looked up at the sky …I did not get to see as many as I did on the way there because the big street light was hindering me from it…and for that second I started thinking about the video once more and realized everything Mr. Ian Cheney documented about was correct. And that you truly do not know how much you can miss til it’s gone. That was my night time experience that I will never forget and that I will always try to make more of.