{"id":101,"date":"2007-03-22T02:31:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T02:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/22\/passage-to-the-galapagos-day-6\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:03:13","slug":"passage-to-the-galapagos-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Passage to the Galapagos &#8211; Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/429930813\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/150\/429930813_e9325972ce_m.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/429930813\/\">Passage to the Galapagos &#8211; Day 6<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\t5:25 P.M. EST Position: North 00.00.00 (that&#8217;s no typo- we are<br \/>\nat the equator!) W 88 degrees 32.6 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Yep, we are at the equator. Actually we just crossed it and are<br \/>\nnow in the Southern Hemisphere.  We crossed the equator while<br \/>\nlistening to Neil Young&#8217;s great sailing song &#8221; Southern Cross&#8221;,<br \/>\n  then we turned the boat around and crossed it again. There is<br \/>\nonly the smallest distance where the latitude actually reads<br \/>\n00.00.00.  We decided to stop the boat and go for a swim just to<br \/>\nmark the occasion.  There was some wind all day, but when we got<br \/>\nto the equator it was down to pretty much nothing, so the boat<br \/>\njust bobbled in the swell while Matt and Annabelle jumped in.<br \/>\nI decided to join them for a QUICK swim at 8,500 feet of depth<br \/>\nwhile Mark stayed on board to make sure the boat didn&#8217;t float<br \/>\naway from us all. ( Don&#8217;t worry we would never leave the boat if<br \/>\nit was just the two of us).  The water was cool and it was<br \/>\nexciting to think about where we were.  A couple of tiny<br \/>\njellyfish found us in the water and quickened our exit.  They<br \/>\nmust have been excited and surprised to see humans out there in<br \/>\nthe middle of their ocean.<br \/>\nEarlier today we had some more excitement when a large pod of<br \/>\npilot whales ( we think) caught up to our boat and swam and dove<br \/>\nnext to us for at least a half an hour. They were so beautiful &#8211;<br \/>\nvery sleek and smooth in the water &#8211; each about 15 feet long.<br \/>\nThere were at least 16 of them. Some of them swam under the boat<br \/>\nand then emerged right next to us, while others just swam next<br \/>\nto us in groups of three or four, blowing out of their<br \/>\nblow-holes before arching and dipping back underwater.  It was<br \/>\namazing. We hope we will see more tomorrow as we reach the<br \/>\nGalapagos.<br \/>\nJust a note: Last night on the boat we were all freezing. I had<br \/>\nto wear a winter hat during my watch. The water temperature has<br \/>\ndropped from the mid-80&#8217;s in Panama to only about 70 degrees,<br \/>\nand you can really feel the difference.  Tonight we dig out the<br \/>\nblankets. Not exactly what one would expect at the equator!<br \/>\nL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passage to the Galapagos &#8211; Day 6. 5:25 P.M. EST Position: North 00.00.00 (that&#8217;s no typo- we are at the equator!) W 88 degrees 32.6 minutes Yep, we are at the equator. Actually we just crossed it and are now in the Southern Hemisphere. We crossed the equator while listening to Neil Young&#8217;s great sailing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passage to the Galapagos &#8211; Day 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galapagos-2007","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}