A late blog from Mai Luo: From 21 to 38, what has changed, and what has not?

Hawaii is on latitude of 21 while San Francisco is on 38.

Since June 8th we kicked off from Oahu Ha, we had been heading north to avoid the pacific high until we hit the line of latitude of 38. From this point, we turned to the right and headed east to San Francisco. We had covered 1500 miles, roughly. Some things have changed, while some have not.

What has changed?

1. The sea depth varied from 500 feet to 18,000 feet.
2. The sea temperature dropped from 74 F to 57 F. We were so lucky to swim on June 13 before it got too cold- a joyful experience to swim in the middle of Pacific ocean.
3. Sea color turned to dark blue from Turquoise. Oh, Hawaii water!
4. We had seen more travelors since then, from package ropes, a light bulb, to lots of plastic buckets. Unbelievably, I even spotted one buoy with a 6-foot antenna. What is it? A weather station? How busy the ocean is!!
5. We hooked 4 fish but caught three only, one Dorado and two tuna. We ate our visitors in four ways: sushi, grill, pan seared, and fish soup. Yummy!
6. We changed from starboard tack to port tack.
7. The fever of sailing seemed to fade while desire to get home early was growing like weed in me.

However, there are somethings that never changed.

1. The ocean is still there.
2. The star is up every night, guiding people from those on Mayflower to those on No Ka oi for hundreds of years.
3. The adventurous spirit is still in the air, inspiring countless people to find either a new world or a new inner self. It will be there forever.

Mai Luo from
N 38. 16. 984
W 135. 08. 587( Pacific ocean)
8:41am June 21st( Pacific time)