Latitude

some images from the true north

... desertification from climate change and overgrazing, so it was interesting to try and read into the landscape what we could.   Latitude 16N - Khartoum. We largely relaxed in Khartoum in the expat area near the UN mission offices. We stayed in ...

We headed for the Equator this morning and the ´Mitad del Mundo´ at latitude 0'0'0! We can both now say we´ve straddled the equator and had our feet in the N & S Hemisphere at the same time! Wow eh! The North was definitely the best of course! Very ...

... , through which runs The Actual Equator Line. Experienced the effects Korioli´s Centrifugal Forces at this unique latitude. Namely: -Water drains straight down at the Equator, clockwise in the Southern hemishpere, and anticlockwise in the ...

... de mon blog m'enfin si quelqu'un le lis.....ma mere au moins ! Encore 2 nuits dans le van apres m'offre une chambre d'hotel ! Bref 2 semaines en Tasmanie et 10 jours de pluie de vent et de froid, 41deg de latitude sud, comme la terre de feu....   ...

Today was our first day far from land.  Of course I have spent many hours at beaches in many different places - Florida, Alabama, Texas, Nantucket, Rhode Island, Maine, California, Australia, New Zealand, and France.  Watching and listening as ...

Am on the way to the Antarctic .......................   Long, long flight from DC, where I have been staying with Robert, Debbie, spouses and grandchildren - something I must do more often this year - via Houston to Buenos Aires. It clocked over ...

Equator ...

Claire: I have no idea where to start - we've had a manic few days and I can't imagine I'm going to be able to convey it in such a way to do it justice! Firstly, Thursday. At Gatwick we treated ourselves to a Chez Gerrard breakfast and justified ...

Ok dive spot, few sharks, nice fish, big boat, but not the most ...

As I sit here and type out reams of authoritative sounding observations I thought it wise to remind myself and everyone else that I don't necessarily know what I am talking about. I'm just an amateur at life and if you ask me something I will try to ...

We start the day with a swim. Woody is pretty much used to swimming every day these days – so I am hoping we can fit this into our new aussie life.  I am amazed at what a great swimmer he is .  We put him in his swimming vest, but we ...

(Southwold, Suffolk, UK, Sunday, July 15, 2007)-British music fans gather regularly in the thousands to enjoy weekend-long outings in remote rural settings where festival promoters stage gala musical events featuring scores of bands and associated ...

Quito, a big, sprawling capital city. First impressions were awful. What we had read and heard about Quito was that it was a very dangerous city. All we kept hearing, from other travellers, guide books and hostel owners, was that it is NOT safe at all, ...

We woke up early because my mom, brother and I were going to the equator line.  It was a half hour car ride.  When we got there, it was a huge circle with a big pillar in the middle of it with a line going to one side of the cirlce to the ...

Welcome to Bali - a mostly Hindu population on one of the larger islands in the Indonesian achepelago, where most citizens (Java, Sumatra) are Muslim.   Denpasar Airport on Monday evening March 15 was very busy - four large airplanes landing about ...

(S): Back to the airport, for the first actual leg of the honeymoon. Ahhh....coffee machines that take a token and I get to choose what I want. European style heaven. We board our plane with limited security, we fly northwest to the island of Bora Bora. ...

Basically I'm on the equator, and it's damn hot. And wet. Not just steam bath wet from the humidity, but wet as in sudden-torrential-rainpour wet. Apparently this part of the world has two seasons: the wet season and the really wet season. Luckily I'm in ...