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17 May 2023


Position am 17.05.2023

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 Opens external link in new windowggplot2).


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: 

calm sea

calm sea with clouds

light waves

fair weather clouds

The weather is geting worse

Calm Pacific

light waves under the ship crane

at the evening

rain over the horizon

windy

the Sun is shining through clouds

the ocean is very calm

grey weather

Evening light behind clouds

Sunset behind clouds
(Pictures: Rieke Schäfer)


As we are sailing along the equator, our wake is kind of “painting” it in the Pacific:

Equator
(Picture: Rieke Schäfer)

 

The sunset is different every day. Often it is accompanied by great colours:

Sunset

Sonnenuntergang

Sonnenuntergang

Sunset

Sunset

Sunset with bird

Sunset

Sunset

Sunset

Sunset

Sunset

Sunset
 (Pictures: Rieke Schäfer)


Same for the sunrise:

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: 

flying fish
(Picture: Rieke Schäfer)

 

PTB doctoral student Opens local program for sending emailRieke Schäfer is blogging here directly from the RV "Sonne" on her way west from South America across the Pacific Ocean.