Equator (just after), Pacific Ocean 7 Feb 2012 7:55 a.m. 00N01 141W097

The captain woke up, I think he has a direct line to Neptune, and feels the equator getting closer, maybe he can even see it. But he corrected me (maybe he could senses me goofing the details). The horizon is only about 2 miles away…about the same as the reef (assuming the imaginary reef did not rise above the waterline). It is a cargo ship that I might be able to see on the horizon at 15 miles. So in fact, there’s not that much ocean visible around us – only 12 and a half square miles depending on whether I’m standing or sitting on the boat – or swimming around it. Not such a vast expanse after all – an easy day’s walk across or around, Napoleon’s army could do two rounds in a day, artillery and all. It would be a tougher swim, still, it’s nothing like the vast area visible from OaPou’s peaks.

You’d think after 2 years, I would have caught myself on that mistake.

Also, longitide is not a new kind of line showing where the long tides are; just me making another typo.

All that for a bunch of somewhat arbitrary invisible lines.

Meanwhile we crossed the equator by Neptune!