Rants & musings—Sailing in the High Latitudes
Why the High Latitudes #1 (John, 2007)
Phyllis and I have just started planning a voyage to
Greenland for 2008. If we pull it off, it will be my
sixth sailing trip to the largest island in the world.
You might logically ask, why go again? Or even, why go
at all?
People have been asking me that since I started high
latitude voyaging some 16 years ago. I usually just
dissolve into incoherence because it’s just so damned
hard to explain. Still, I’m going to give it a go
in a series of posts. With a bit of luck, this process
might even help me figure it out for myself.
So here we go with reason number one: It’s about the
light. There is nowhere else that has the quality and
variety of light that you find in the north. (I guess
the far south has it too, but I have not been there.)
Sometimes stark and harsh, sometimes long and warm,
sometimes soft and pearly and sometimes filled with dark
foreboding, but always with a subtle quality that says
this is the high latitudes and nowhere else.
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