Sky and Sea

Between working on the boat, freediving, and hanging about, we have gotten a couple side trips to other parts of Majuro Atoll.

 moored off eneko island, majuro.  

we sit in crystal blue water just off a white sand beach covered with coconut trees...

sunset from mooring at uliga

Majuro mooring

Here is Genesis Earthling sitting on the mooring in Majuro,

and all that is left of our California flag...

Passage: Hawaii to Marshall Islands. Day 20

1-6-13  Day 20 HI to RMI
We have arrived!!  
As soon as you arrive on land, it feels as if the entire 20 days has passed without you, but you are aware of this other existence that was you during the 20 days.  a seperate reality.

Passage: Hawaii to Marshall Islands. Day 18

1-4-13  day 18  HI to RMI
For days i have been crafting the best way to sell my boat.  maybe someone in the Marshalls has been looking for a cruising sailboat.  maybe just get her to Australia where i can get top dollar...
then i'm sitting here on my watch in the middle of the night.  a light rain, then the sky clears, the moon comes out, shooting stars.  the boat is sailing herself peacfully along, and we're just two days from home.  why would i trade this for anything?
such is the human experience.
Thank God, we are not all human.

Passage: Hawaii to Marshall Islands. Day 15

1-1-12  day 15  Hi to RMI
started off monday 12-31-12.  partway through the afternoon we passed the 180 degree meridian, the international date line, and it became tuesday 1-1-13 in an instant.  we effectively skipped new years.  just goes to show how all time references are shattered out here. your relationship to days of the week and dates of the month are meaningless.  your perception of time altered, sometimes stopped, sometimes heightened.  land time does not exist at sea.
it is surprisingly easy for us to isolate ourselves from one another out here.  you could be sitting right next to your bud, but your mind has been sucked into the ether.  it took a conscious effort to bring yourself back, and make some conversation or crack a joke, and those interactions ended up being huge for moral, something that needed regular maintenance, and a concept not yet revealed to me prior to this passage.
the best part of the day is sunset.  the most beautiful moments of my existence out here happen at sunset.  everything softens at this time.  the colors, the heat of the day, the ocean even seems to calm momentarily.  struggling with preparing food, drinking enough water, keeping your mind off the monotony and seemingly endless time in the middle of the ocean during the day.  a struggle to make it to the evening, when everything is right.  the stars come out.  360 degrees horizon to horizon stars.  i look to the right and see stars.  i look to the left and see stars.  i am between those stars.  i look up and see stars, i imagine stars below me.  i am surrounded by stars.  i am amidst stars.