February 2021:
Ship Shapes, Part 1

By Corey Sandler

For more than 30 years we lived on a small island out to sea. We came ashore just a bit more than a year ago and now reside on the mainland, high up in a gilded tower above the North Atlantic.

It has now been a full year since the virus hit the fan, spewing disease and death and a deep freeze nearly everywhere in the world.

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In that time our world contracted. Like watching a slow-motion domino topple, we saw the cancellation of eight cruises in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Scandinavia.

We are ready, but we still don’t know when we can return to the life aquatic.

There’s hope in new vaccines, new protocols, and new leaders.

Since we cannot yet construct fully formed plans, I spent a morning looking back at fragments. I reached back twenty years or so for a starting point.

Call them Ship Shapes. Here’s the first installment; I’m hoping this series will have a limited run.

At anchor off Panama City, Panama in the Pacific Ocean. Photo by Corey Sandler, copyright 2005, all rights reserved.
Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia. Photo by Corey Sandler, copyright 2004, all rights reserved.
Below the Chateau, Quebec City, Canada. Photo by Corey Sandler, copyright 2007, all rights reserved.
Megaship Row, Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. Photo by Corey Sandler, copyright 2006, all rights reserved.
Shore Leave in Fakarava, Tuamato Archipelago. Photo by Corey Sandler, copyright 2006, all rights reserved.
Magdalenefjord in Svalbard near the the North Pole. Photo by Corey Sandler, copyright 2005, all rights reserved.
On the Amazon. Photo by Corey Sandler, copyright 2006, all rights reserved.
Bow Wave at Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos. Photo by Corey Sandler, copyright 2009, all rights reserved.
Sunset in the Caribbean. Photo by Corey Sandler, copyright 2009, all rights reserved.

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