Day 15
Wayward Adventure
Thu 2 Apr 2009 01:16
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00:18.111s 129:57.070w
Our noon to noon mileage was 200nm exactly, that's
averaging 8knts for 24 hours. Noon was a special time because we crossed
the equator into the southern hemisphere. On your first crossing
there are all manners of ceremonies that can be preformed, most involving
rum or the likes of and all meant to be offerings to Neptune. Before
leaving Seattle I received the strangest of going away presents. It was
less of a gift and more of a request, 'Here in this box are the ashes of
Augustus Murphy, he was always a captain and hoped you could spread his ashes in
an appropriate manner' were Jeff Murphy's words. Little Gus, never was
there a more suborned willed Jack Russell terrier to ever live. He would
charge a pit-bull or a mouse with the same abandon. Not even a mirror
could prove to him that he was just a little fella. It took me well over a
year to befriend the little asshole, but once befriended you were thereby under
his love and protection, like it or not. I feel honored to lay Gus in his
final resting place and at noon we did just that. We present Captain
Augustus Murphy to the deep sea and may we all be accepted as Neptune's
children, as all who cross the equator are
considered.
AP
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