I’ve often watched videos documenting the amazing cruises that many folks embark on. They have wonderful food experiences and see parts of this amazing world we live in. I’ve never actually been on a cruise, and the likelihood of that happening gets more remote each week!
Watching one of these experiences on TV last night made me absolutely goggle-eyed. The ship was absolutely enormous, yet able to navigate small marine paths with ease. This is due to leapfrogs in technology. |
Just in case you’re behind on your technology, an azipod is a gearless, steerable propulsion system where the electric drive motor is housed within a pod, outside the ship hull. Simple, huh?
Yet with all the incredible technology poured into these ships, it seems there’s no update for an advance warning to whales and other sea life. This huge, monster ship is 983 feet or close to 300 metres long.
Tragically, the loss of whales each year is estimated at 20,000. If we saw them floating we’d be up in arms. But because many of them sink to the bottom of the ocean after being hit, we really don’t have data on them.
We watched this vid in sorrow showing a whale with a broken back swimming a breast stroke 6000km after a boat strike.
Saffron Corms
Forget our water shortage. It doesn’t seem to bother them at all. No watering from May on. At the end of September, they’re ready to flower and you have a month of daily flowers to pick and process.
You’ll find lots about this wonderful spice on my sub-page, All About Saffron.