At Sea
Mostly sunny, not too hot, a little breezy and a bit of a bump to the ocean, but not enough to knock you around, just enough to remind you that you are on a ship at sea, as it should be! More traffic now, all around us, but not close, although sometimes I hear voices on the radio that I do not recognize. The water temperature is down to the high sixties. It is getting temperate now and Europe is just on the other side of the horizon.
Folks are on deck looking for things, watching the sea, talking, reading and taking the sun. There is lots of stuff to see, here and there: birds; flying fish, lots of these; dolphins come to play with us, hundreds of them, spotted dolphins, jumping and smiling; Portuguese man-o-war too, pink, blue and strange, nasty tentacles guarding against fish that pinch and nibble at them and even a leatherback sea turtle just floated by!
There is more than that, down below. Here is a strange fish caught in the act of doing nothing by the ROV, yesterday, at over 400 feet beneath the ship. It was a little startled and it did not give me his name before he left, in a bit of a huff, probably to do nothing much again, a vagrant fish always on vacation, perhaps, getting pleasure from the day, like us.
Mostly sunny, not too hot, a little breezy and a bit of a bump to the ocean, but not enough to knock you around, just enough to remind you that you are on a ship at sea, as it should be! More traffic now, all around us, but not close, although sometimes I hear voices on the radio that I do not recognize. The water temperature is down to the high sixties. It is getting temperate now and Europe is just on the other side of the horizon.
Folks are on deck looking for things, watching the sea, talking, reading and taking the sun. There is lots of stuff to see, here and there: birds; flying fish, lots of these; dolphins come to play with us, hundreds of them, spotted dolphins, jumping and smiling; Portuguese man-o-war too, pink, blue and strange, nasty tentacles guarding against fish that pinch and nibble at them and even a leatherback sea turtle just floated by!
There is more than that, down below. Here is a strange fish caught in the act of doing nothing by the ROV, yesterday, at over 400 feet beneath the ship. It was a little startled and it did not give me his name before he left, in a bit of a huff, probably to do nothing much again, a vagrant fish always on vacation, perhaps, getting pleasure from the day, like us.
