Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Night scene

Hi kids!

Here's a picture of Cahaya in the water in front of the city lights of
West Palm Beach at night. See if you can figure out the ship's
outline. Hint: you are looking pretty much at the back end of the boat.

Now see if you can pick out the light at the top of Cahaya's mast.
This is called an 'anchor light'. If the boat's anchor is down, the
boat is supposed to show an anchor light like this at the top of the
mast so other boaters will know it's anchored and go around it. There
are a whole system of lights that boats are supposed to show to tell
other boats what they're up to. Anchor lights are one part of that
system.

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