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Have you ever crossed the Equator?
Posted on 4/14/16 at 10:59 pm
Posted on 4/14/16 at 10:59 pm
Met a couple from Cape Town, South Africa on my last trip and it sounds like a great visit. My next two trips are bucket list trips but I seriously want to visit the southern hemisphere.
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Posted on 4/14/16 at 11:16 pm to DoUrden
I stood with a foot on each side of the Equator when I was in Uganda. It was pretty cool. Got to camp and raft the Nile River the last couple of days of the trip. It was an incredible experience.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 12:57 am to DoUrden
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Posted on 4/15/16 at 6:18 am to DoUrden
Yup. Australia.
Was walking back from a restaurant one evening and looked up into a clear, starry sky. I started looking for my familiar constellations, but couldn't find any of them. That's when it really hit me that I was on THE OTHER frickING SIDE OF THE WORLD. It was pretty mind blowing. Instead of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, I saw the Southern Cross.
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Was walking back from a restaurant one evening and looked up into a clear, starry sky. I started looking for my familiar constellations, but couldn't find any of them. That's when it really hit me that I was on THE OTHER frickING SIDE OF THE WORLD. It was pretty mind blowing. Instead of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, I saw the Southern Cross.
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Posted on 4/18/16 at 9:54 pm to DoUrden
No, but one day, I plan to go to Capetown, South Africa to swim with great whites.
Posted on 4/18/16 at 10:55 pm to DoUrden
Yeah, went to Sydney on R&R when I was in the Nam. Had to wait for 8 months to get it but it was worth the wait. Got to Sydney on the 4th of July and it got to 33 degrees that night. Maybe another trip on the bucket list to down under for me and the wife but probably heading to Europe after a trip to Hawaii.
Posted on 4/18/16 at 11:04 pm to FrenchJoe
Went through S. America down to Ushuaia. Usuaia is a lot like Alaska, just on the other hemisphere.
Posted on 4/18/16 at 11:55 pm to DoUrden
We rode across it in Kenya. We asked our driver to stop so we could take a picture at the equator sign.
He said we didn't have enough time to stop
He said we didn't have enough time to stop
Posted on 4/19/16 at 5:56 am to DoUrden
Crossed in Uganda but a back road so we didn't know the spot. Crossed it in western Kenya in the midst of an incredible storm. Pulled over at the sign to wait it out.
Posted on 4/19/16 at 7:40 am to DoUrden
Many times... in 2005 I became an emerald shellback (crossed the equator at the prime meridian).
This post was edited on 4/19/16 at 7:41 am
Posted on 4/19/16 at 8:53 am to terd ferguson
Jakarta and stayed in the Marriott and they have really good food.
Posted on 4/19/16 at 10:25 am to DoUrden
yep. Been to the amazon jungle in Peru. Stayed in Iquitos. Flew into Lima first of course.
Posted on 4/19/16 at 10:53 am to LSU Tigershark
quote:I'll be in Perdido in July, you can come swim with me.
No, but one day, I plan to go to Capetown, South Africa to swim with great whites.
I have not yet crossed the Equator. I've been close.
Ecuador (specifically the Galapagos Islands) are on my bucket list.
Posted on 4/19/16 at 12:14 pm to LSU Tigershark
quote:I've been there and from my experience you'll mainly be swimming with average blacks......
I plan to go to Capetown, South Africa to swim with great whites.
To answer the OP, yes. On separate trips I've been to South Africa, Australia, Zambia, Malawi and Antarctica.
Posted on 4/19/16 at 1:43 pm to DoUrden
Became a Shellback, 1966. USS OK City CLG-5. Got my arse kicked pretty good, but fun
Posted on 4/19/16 at 3:24 pm to namvet6566
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Became a Shellback
We were scheduled to do this when I was in the Gulf made it through the Suez (that was a long arse GQ) and got to Muscat, Oman and the admiral decided he didn't want to go so we went back.
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