Blood Moon
Blood Moon
Picture of Arnd

Arnd

2014 Trip 2014-04-15

There was a total lunar eclipse this night and I woke up a 3AM to see it. While I got a photo of this Blood Moon as the press is labelling it, as it sounds more interesting than a mere lunar eclipse; the total eclipse makes the moon’s colour look reddish to brown for the duration but I didn’t hang around on deck to see the eclipse end. I tried to get a picture of it but I knew that the only way to get a good shot was to go ashore and use a tripod and I certainly wasn’t going to do that in the early hours of the morning.

Today is a very hot day, not because of the temperatures but because the winds have died down; here in Deshaies we are back winded a bit, but the winds aren’t strong enough to make an appreciable cooling breeze. I am doing a couple of chores aboard and am looking forward to a walk ashore later this afternoon, hopefully underneath the cooling canopy of the forest.

The walk was very nice and despite no winds under the canopy it was cool and refreshing. After the walk and a warm shower I dropped by for a quick hello and goodbye on Katzenellenbogen as they wanted to leave for Antigua early the next morning and I was in no such hurry and wanted to remain here another day or two.

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight. 

Every.  Single.  Page. 

 

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies. 

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.