Tag: sunset

  • Life is full of opportunities…

    Life is full of opportunities…

    #flathal #flatstanleyproject I have been trying to improve my photography for a while. Experimenting with what looks good to me, trying to see if I can capture images that remind me of a postcard, or a painting. next time you draw something, or take a picture, pause a moment, give the details a little extra…

  • A Fun & Cold Time Watching The Sun Set

    A Fun & Cold Time Watching The Sun Set

    #flatstanley #flathal #antarctica The high of the day was only a little above freezing, and the temperature seemed to drop quickly with the sun, but the color didn’t just linger in the sky, it seemed to get more brilliant and interesting as the time passed. For most of an hour, maybe more the sky reflected…

  • Peru is Flat Hal and Flat Stanley’s second country in the Southern Hemisphere this trip!

    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…

  • Birds the Flat Fellas saw in San Diego

    Birds the Flat Fellas saw in San Diego

    At Shelter Island we saw an Egret, a seagull, some Grebes, as well as a Bufflehead & some ducks. A Say’s Phoebe was blending in with the tree branches at Mount Soledad. Sunset in San Diego at Shelter Island

  • Fakarava and their white coral beaches

    Fakarava and their white coral beaches

    There was talk at previous ports about the difference between black sand and white sand beaches, and what gives beaches their color, but Fakarava was the first beach Flat Stanley and Flat Hal ventured that at first glance looked more like a rock than a sand beach, and at second glance we realized it wasn’t…

  • Bora Bora – the Flat Fellas explored an island so many have heard of

    Bora Bora – the Flat Fellas explored an island so many have heard of

    Before heading ashore with Flat Hal and Flat Stanley today we tried to think of why Bora Bora is an island so many people have heard of, and know the name of, even if they don’t know it is in the Society Islands, or French Polynesia. We started our learning with the help of Gemini…

  • Kona — the big island 

    Kona — the big island 

    There is a LOT to see and do in Hawaii.  On our day in Kona we walked around, enjoyed the warm weather, the sun was hot against our skin (except for the people who went further from the harbor and got rained on), and the waves crashed against the shore and splashed up on to…