or night and day? What I want to impart are images that stick with me from the days and nights we have been at sea. Not the various towns, islands, bays but the time spent traveling the ocean or coast. So here I go in thought flow format.
I didn't know that starlight - ONLY starlight - was so mercurially magical. It was the dark of the moon sailing off the Coast of northern Costa Rica as we came in from the Galapagos that entranced me so. Middle of the night and we are sailing along gently with magic above and phosphorescent glows in the sea as Ceilidh glides thru the water. The sun set quickly in the evenings with spectacular sunsets painting the sky with colours too numerous to name. Rich and I sat on the forward deck and watched the sun go beyond the horizon on many nights. Oh! I have finally seen the "green flash" twice. A bit disappointing because I had imagined a huge explosion of emerald green (yes, I do have a healthy imagination) but it was just a small disc of a more florescent green as the sun slipped into the ocean.
Watching the sea life and wondering at their domain occupies me for hours upon end. When the sea is calm and the water clear the sunlight filters down thru the layers and creates patterns that resemble mermaids hair streaming further into the depths. That's my take on it. Rich has scientific explanations of the refraction of light and such. The sea turtle population appears to be on the upswing. We saw ever so many along our journey. While I was napping Rich took photos of a happy turtle who swam along with us (we were going ever so s l o w at the time) just between our two trailing fishing lines. So many dolphins came to play with Ceilidh, night and day. At night I first hear them breaking the surface and breathing and then see the trail of green phosphorescence as they frolic alongside.
The sailing has been very enjoyable with enough wind to keep the sails filled and the engine off but no crazy hold on to your hat icky seas and wooky wind. And now we are in Zihuatanejo and waiting for Peach and Dmitry to arrive. I am so looking forward to their visit. In the mean time we are doing the many boat tasks, getting to know Zihua again and enjoying life immensely.
Here is the photo link for the images I tried to describe plus some of our visit in Santa Elaina, Costa Rica.
http://public.fotki.com/svceilidh/costa-rica-to-mexico/
Wish we had some snaps of the crazy green parrots who live and thrive there but they were way to fast and wily for my photo capture abilities.
Love to you all
from the yin side
I didn't know that starlight - ONLY starlight - was so mercurially magical. It was the dark of the moon sailing off the Coast of northern Costa Rica as we came in from the Galapagos that entranced me so. Middle of the night and we are sailing along gently with magic above and phosphorescent glows in the sea as Ceilidh glides thru the water. The sun set quickly in the evenings with spectacular sunsets painting the sky with colours too numerous to name. Rich and I sat on the forward deck and watched the sun go beyond the horizon on many nights. Oh! I have finally seen the "green flash" twice. A bit disappointing because I had imagined a huge explosion of emerald green (yes, I do have a healthy imagination) but it was just a small disc of a more florescent green as the sun slipped into the ocean.
Watching the sea life and wondering at their domain occupies me for hours upon end. When the sea is calm and the water clear the sunlight filters down thru the layers and creates patterns that resemble mermaids hair streaming further into the depths. That's my take on it. Rich has scientific explanations of the refraction of light and such. The sea turtle population appears to be on the upswing. We saw ever so many along our journey. While I was napping Rich took photos of a happy turtle who swam along with us (we were going ever so s l o w at the time) just between our two trailing fishing lines. So many dolphins came to play with Ceilidh, night and day. At night I first hear them breaking the surface and breathing and then see the trail of green phosphorescence as they frolic alongside.
The sailing has been very enjoyable with enough wind to keep the sails filled and the engine off but no crazy hold on to your hat icky seas and wooky wind. And now we are in Zihuatanejo and waiting for Peach and Dmitry to arrive. I am so looking forward to their visit. In the mean time we are doing the many boat tasks, getting to know Zihua again and enjoying life immensely.
Here is the photo link for the images I tried to describe plus some of our visit in Santa Elaina, Costa Rica.
http://public.fotki.com/svceilidh/costa-rica-to-mexico/
Wish we had some snaps of the crazy green parrots who live and thrive there but they were way to fast and wily for my photo capture abilities.
Love to you all
from the yin side
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