WBSW6: Gliding on Glass

10 September 2017, At sea near Maria Island, Tasmania
Wineglass Bay Sail Walk Day 4

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We sailed north this morning on a fine clear day and a glassy sea.

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A glassy sea implies no wind so we would have been powered by the engine.

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I’m sitting on the bow here, looking back.

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I was impressed by the patterns in the wake at the side of the ketch.

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And I’m picking off selections with a very long lens.

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An interesting mixture of the sharp and real and the abstract and dreamy.

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Submersed in the magic of nature…

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Ethereal boundaries and transitions…

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Probably these conditions didn’t last long as we steamed out of a sheltered anchorage.

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All these images were taken within less than eight minutes.

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