The Center of the World

Maybe it would be better to say, "The Center of the Map."   We are sailing from Namibia to Senegal along Africa's west coast.  Each day the captain gives us our longitude and latitude.  At 3:00 PM today we were at 0.00 degrees latitude and 0.00 degrees longitude, a point known to mariners as Null Island.  There is no island, not even a little one, just a 12 foot high buoy bouncing around in the Atlantic Ocean in 15000+ feet of water.  This is the point where the line through Greenwich (the prime meridian) crosses the equator, an imaginary line equidistant from both poles.

At first, this is all I saw.

Then, I saw this in the far distance.

My camera has better color.

Darrell's camera has better detail.