The second, running through a glass-flat canal toward the setting sun.
This pic would be serene, but for the known peril of remaining in this ditch after sunset. For comfort & safety's sake, the bridge on the horizon should have passed overhead two hours earlier. The 85 Statute Mile trip is quite doable in a single day, if your boat makes 7 knots. With a foul bottom, however, maxed out at 5 knots, not such an easy feat.
Making the ensuing 3-hour end of this trip much more anxious was the combination of darkness, a stiffening wind, limited local knowledge, and pitching seas all the way in. But, the sailor and his vessel survived.
I'll be putting together a video of this adventure and posting over on the sister-blog, when I get enough time. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to where these photos were taken?
