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Tonight's 8 to 12 watch was quite a change.
The rain had stopped. The wind remained clam the sea was pretty flat, but the fog was still there. Although the temperature was about 6 C, with the calm wind it felt warmer.
A burgie bit had been spotted earlier in the day, so the lookouts were on high alert.
Early into the watch the captain announced that he expected that we would arrive at St Anthony by 10 am tomorrow, unless we had to reduce speed due to icebergs.
About 9:30, while the sun was still setting what looked like a full moon began to rise in the east. It was obscured by the fog until was about 30 degrees above the horizon, at which point it became clear. The setting sun was a dull glow behind the fog while the moon added a soft defused light that painted the fog in a pallet of pastels; soft rose /peach running to shades of light gray to gunmetal. As the sky above the fog began to clear we saw stars for the first time in weeks. Unfortunately, this wonderful weather phenomenon did not last very long long and the fog and clouds finally won out. At the end of the watch everything was as if the midnight sun never occurred
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