The light was curious. True astronomical night was only two hours; sunrise and sunset took three hours each. The play of light, clouds, sea and land was fascinating. Sometimes, it was so bright, I needed sunglasses and found myself looking away from the brightest areas of the landscape. Other times, especially in the Bering Sea, we were in a deep fog with monotone light all around and little indication of where the light was coming from. I liked overcast, cloudy days, with a distant break in the clouds when beams of light illuminated a broad eclipse of the sea.
We saw fogbows meaning monotone rainbows with fog mist rather than rain drops; larger raindrops act as prisms to refract the light; fog does not. We saw the Northern Lights. I enjoyed the long days at sea when I could walk around the deck and enjoy panoramic, unfettered views from a small ship surrounded by a broad and seemingly expanses of sea and land.
