Day 24: Sunrise - The First Hour

The morning light through the balcony curtain woke me up pleasantly today. I was out of bed and dressed by 6:05 A.M. Today’s sunrise was scheduled for 6:21 A.M. I was not going to miss it this morning.

Neptune is heading in a south-westerly direction which meant the sun rising from the east would be off of the port side of the stern. With long pants and a t-shirt I headed aft. A breeze would send a slight shiver down my spine this morning. I found refuge undercover where I could sit, wait , and watch the sun enter the day. I took over 50 photos on my iPhone watching the sunrise for a complete hour. After deleting many of them I got it down to about 20.

This post will be in two parts - Here are three photos, 6:10, 6:21, and 7:10 AM along with a video to show you the rocking of the ship, the waves, the wake from the propeller’s, and the morning sky. My goal here is to show the start of the hour (6:10) - the scheduled sunrise time (6:21) - Finally the end of the hour (7:10). I know I can often get too rushed and not slow down to just look and sense the moment which is right in front of me. The second post will be just of pictures I took. It was hard to narrow it down to 20 images.

It was nice to spend a full hour with the sun this morning. The sunrise is a slow subtle movie of images. To hear propellers, feel the cool wind on my face, the sounds of the ocean, the smell of the salt air just really ushered in a peaceful morning.

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