Ao-iro

I sailed for four days from Sydney to Townsville on MS Nautica. This was a diary entry I wrote onboard, which I then later transcribed into a digital format.

It’s five minutes past five. I’m sitting beside the window using the ledge as a makeshift desk. There’s a proper desk in the stateroom but I don’t use it as the lighting there is poor and I need to switch on the desk lamps. It’s not that I’m lazy to switch it on. Rather, I prefer the feeling of natural light. It’s a sea day today but because of the rainy weather, I’m spending the whole time indoors, especially inside the stateroom. Between meals, I retreat to my stateroom cycling through one film to another.

Right now as I’m gazing out the window, there are two cargo ships in the far distance. What lies between them and the ship I’m on is the deep blue sea. I’ve never went this far out into the sea, not even on a ferry. The sea is haunting particularly more so at nighttime when it turns into an endless, bottomless darkness.