 | Sunset from the crow's nest, the highest accesible point on the boat. |
| The Palmer looked brilliantly yellow at sunset. |  |
 | Sunrise over the helo deck. (Which, in the 10 year lifetime of the boat, has only once been used to land a helicopter on; mainly it's used as extra storage space.) |
| Sunset off the side of the boat, just outside my cabin's window. |  |
 | The sun melts into the ocean. |
| After a while, we began to take it for granted that there would always be spectacular sunrises and sunsets. |  |
 | The moon also merited some pictures. |
| Mainly, it was just sun and water and sky for as far as the eye could see. |  |
 | The wake from our boat. |
| The day before we were due in port, we saw clouds to the west, off the shore of the North Island. We were almost there... |  |