17 May 2023
Current position (diamond shape). The circles are the positions at previous blog posts, the black line is roughly the route we took (base map from 
ggplot2).
Today, I want to show you that the sea out here is not as monotonous as you might think. Both the sky and the sea are different every day. Most days there are only a few clouds, but sometimes we can see the rain passing by. Even so, we very rarely get any rain ourselves. The waves, too, are always different. In the beginning, we had very smooth water, now it’s more choppy. Every day the waves are different from the day before. The big waves of the ocean swell change, and the smaller waves break a little bit at their tips on some days. Sometimes they even create little splashes when they meet. There is always something to look at.
Imagine the sound of waves accompanying the pictures:
(Pictures: Rieke Schäfer)
As we are sailing along the equator, our wake is kind of “painting” it in the Pacific:
(Picture: Rieke Schäfer)
The sunset is different every day. Often it is accompanied by great colours:
(Pictures: Rieke Schäfer)
Same for the sunrise:
(Picture: Rieke Schäfer)
And we still have lots of flying fish. However, they are difficult to capture in pictures. The white specks in this picture are the fish:
(Picture: Rieke Schäfer)
PTB doctoral student 
Rieke Schäfer is blogging here directly from the RV "Sonne" on her way west from South America across the Pacific Ocean.