Our good friend, Erden Eruc, has been trying to row a small yellow boat from San Francisco to Australia for the last 6+ months. He has been foiled by the equatorial counter currents for the past several months and was kept being pushed westward instead of to the south. Erden and his dedicated not-on-board crew have been juggling his multiple landfall destinations, weather patterns, storm tracking, and re-supply efforts more intensely the past 2 months, as he has been nearing the Philippines and Indonesia... a bit off from his Australia mark!
Well, yesterday evening, with the help of a distant typhoon and a change in currents, Erden finally crossed south of the imaginary equatorial line on our great Earth! Our future school is about 1 degree south of the equator, and though are plans were not to arrive there until the beginning of August, we were all wondering whom would cross the equator first!
So, with huge congratulations to our very weathered, sea faring Captain Eruc, we also wish you the safest of journeys on the other side of the globe and a good landing in Jayapura... or wherever your boat may take you!
http://www.oceanrowing.com/ErdenEruc_Pacific/dist.htm
By the way, he's 2 days away from breaking the solo rower's record of 305 days out at sea!!!!
(gulp!)
Acadia National Park 2018
8 years ago
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