Today I sorted through the pictures from the Papeete to San Francisco passages, selected a few and added them to the blog entries made during the trip.
There are some nice ones showing the size of the "squalls" on the radar. They were more like miniature storm systems. The radar scale (radius of the area displayed) in the left window of the display is 24nm, so top to bottom or left edge to right edge is 48nm. One picture shows a system that is over 50 miles long and maybe 10 miles wide. Another covers most of the radar display which means several thousand square miles of ocean! I have been asked several times if we couldn't have sailed around the squalls; I think the pictures show why that wasn't an option.
There are also a few sunsets (of course), as well as a picture of the skiff we almost hit while passing through tsunami debris.
You can flip back through the older entries with a click right here, then scroll down to the Papeete departure or wherever you see a picture.
