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People occasionally ask what we do at night when
sailing across oceans. Here we are doing exactly what they must imagine
we do which is anchoring in the middle of the sea! We are actually
anchored on top of a 5,000m high mountain whose top is just below the
water and which has acquired a narrow rim of reef which to date is also
still submerged |
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Like the edge of the world - the view in all directions
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The birth of an atoll where the wave action is piling
up dead coral inside the crater. It won't be long before something stays
above water for long enough for someone to claim a new land |
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New baby atoll - in 500 years time there will probably
be a fast food outlet here |
The only thing to break the surface is an incautious
fishing boat
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Oh dear! |
Rather a sad sight |
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Of course I didn't capture
it on camera but we got the elusive green flash this evening in the last
second of the setting sun |
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From the middle of nowhere to another tiny spec in the
ocean
NIUE |
