Tag: equator
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Navigating By The Stars…
In the age of Pirates, ships didn’t have computers and GPS navigation, but sailors still looked to satellites for help navigating. They looked to “naturally occurring” satellites… the stars in the sky! Using equipment they brought with them, and knowledge passed down for generations about the position of the stars, they could find their way……
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Crossing the Equator!
Today the Flat Friends sailed from the Northern Hemisphere into the Southern, by gliding across an invisible line known as the equator! We made certificates to celebrate: By Royal Decree:To all Mermaids, Whales, Sharks, and Flying Fish of the Deep:Be it known that on this day, the vessel carrying Flat Hal and Flat Halena has…
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The Flat Fellas Sailed By A Floating Village!
#flathal #flatstanley #amazonriver #brazil Sailing the Rio Negro towards the Amazon we passed a floating village some of our fellow passengers visited during our time in Manaus. Those passengers came back with stories of a school boat, floating houses, smaller rivers for roads… a different way of life than Flat Hal and Flat Stanley are…
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Peru is Flat Hal and Flat Stanley’s second country in the Southern Hemisphere this trip!
#flatstanley #flathal #southernhemisphere We were so excited about the Panama Canal that Flat Hal and Flat Stanley didn’t journal about crossing the equator a few hours before we arrived in Manta, Ecuador. (The Captain predicted we would cross the equator around midnight, but none of us stayed up to watch the map and see exactly…
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the Power of Shared Experiences… a ship full of Golden shellbacks
The ship had a ceremony with King Neptune for the crew members who crossed the equator for the first time. Less formal that graduating from one level of school to the next, a ceremony like this is a fun way to celebrate not just the shared experience of Crossing the Equator, but everyone on the ship…
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Flat Hal and Flat Stanley crossed the Equator at the International Date Line
Early this morning we crossed the Equator at the International Date Line. For 38 seconds one half of the ship was in the northern hemisphere, the other half was in the southern hemisphere… for those same 38 seconds it was different days on the two sides of the ship! Thanks to some helpful crew members,…