I am a Thalassophile
I am a Thalassophile. I love the sea, the ocean. Looking at it, listening to it, smelling it and traveling on it. Yet there is always frisson. Vast, all encompassing, immensely powerful and inhabited by inscrutable creatures, it is uncontrollable. Hurricanes have filled my beach apartment with water, waves in the Drake Passage flipped the heavy chair in my cabin and more than a few stomachs aboard. Constant foghorns during four foggy days crossing the Atlantic Ocean …