Thursday, May 11, 2017 Sunny
Atlantic, oriental fish belly white. Hotel restaurant in the Moroccan seaside town of Port Tangier.
The waters of the Atlantic, déjà vu... More than 10 years ago, I wrote about the "40-degree storm angle" of the Atlantic Ocean in my 430,000-word historical narrative novel "The Golden Bridge Drifting in the Mediterranean".
In 2012, I wrote about the Atlantic Ocean in my novella "The Girl and the Sea," about a school of giant marlin migrating north from Havana waters. Later, my WeChat profile picture chose a large marlin jumping out of the blue water in the "Gulf Stream" in Mexico, and in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", the "girl" is the 18-foot-long marlin that once bites the hook on the bottom of the sea - her name is "girl".
On the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar is the town of Tangjer in Morocco in North Africa, and on the northern shore is the small town of Malaga in Spain on the Iberian Peninsula of Western Europe (see photo).
A bird's-eye view of the world's nautical charts, from the Atlantic Ocean, the Strait of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Arabian Peninsula, roughly at right angles, cut off the three continental plates of Europa, Asia and Africa.
Overlooking the Strait, the mountain in the upper right corner is the Gibraltar District. The Strait of Gibraltar is 58 kilometers long and 14 kilometers narrow, located in Morocco in North Africa and southwest Spain in Western Europe, and is an important waterway from the Mediterranean Sea to Southern Europe, North Africa and West Asia. The Strait of Gibraltar separates the land plates of the two continents, Africa and Europe, and we chose to cross it by a 10,000-ton cargo ship, and what we gained was the personal experience of being close to the water that the flight could not find in the volley.
The 10,000-ton ferry slowly left the port of Tangier, and half an hour later, we were sailing into the waters of the Mediterranean.
Peng Huan's Passenger Ferry Tickets:
Top left: Passager/passager (passing, transient)
Departure time: 08/05/2017 10:00
NAME: PENG HUAN
Bottom right: print Date 08-05-2017 08:55
TANGER MED (Tangier Newport/Mediterranean)
In addition to the two small people and disabled people signs that are commonly used all over the world, the toilets in the ferry also have a special hand cleaning room for Islamic believers, several pairs of clean slippers and metal kettles for "small purity".
The picture shows the route of the 10,000-ton ferry in the Strait of Gibraltar. The end point is the port of Algeciras in the town of Maraca, Spain.
In two hours by water, we crossed the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean in North Africa and for the first time stepped into the Iberian Peninsula on the European continent, a land of bullfighting, football and the swirling of the gypsy "flamenco" and its red pomegranate skirt.
(Some of the online pictures are thanks to the original / invaded and deleted)