Sailing Sunday

Emily Wesson, the wife of my preceptor, is an experienced sailor and teaches sailing classes. I begged her to take me out with her as she gave instructions to the owner of a little catamaran. It had been storming before we set sail, so we were nervous it wouldn't be great weather. Instead, just the opposite, there were few winds and the clouds disappeared to blue skies and sunshine. (My sunburned legs can attest to the African sunshine.)

Let me just say, it is absolutely THE best way to see a harbor city. Gorgeous. These are just the shots before we left.

Emily making adjustments as the beach crew watched. :)

Sunrise, sunset

I can't get over the beauty of these African sunsets over the ocean, where the exact moment of the sun's disappearance can be marked on the horizon.  Mountain-westerners are used to beautiful skies, but rarely if ever does the sun literally melt into the horizon and never in such the fast sinking way it does into the ocean.

Doing some quick calculations at dinner, this is the 10,608th sunset of my life.  With most of mine recently occurring during working hours outside the hospital, I am all the more appreciate and mesmerized by these painted but morphing skies at dusk.  Such a great, grand thing this sky of ours, that gives one a little sense of wonderment if we'd just take time time to look up.  What a Masterful Painter to make such a colorful delight.