Prohibitively Peerless
02 November 2010 | En Route Opua Day 3
November 2
Partly cloudy sky, 14 to 18 knot east southeast wind, 4 meter long period swell, course 210 making 6.5 to 7.0 knots. Have run highly specialized calculus equations to confirm that, indeed, it can't get any better. Last 24 hour run 164 NM. Will hold this thought as conditions change over next several days. For better? Suspect not.
Circumstance of being in 'the west' to change tomorrow. As future location will be in southern and eastern hemispheres and opposite to U.S., other-side-of-the- worldliness will commence. For your edification, lines drawn through earth's center from Opua, Whangerei and Aukland exit in N. Morocco, Strait of Gibraltar and S. Spain, respectively. Is that cool, or what?
Unable to dredge up any sufficiently gonzo preposterousity (not a real word), so will end with:
"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited." - Douglas Adams
Jack