Re: [Paddlewise] Catalina Navigation Upside Down?

Now I know where 99.99999% of all UFO sightings come from.
 
Cheers,
 
Rob G
 
In a message dated 12/4/2007 9:59:34 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
crjungers_at_gmail.com writes:

That's a  terrific photograph of the effect. An inversion layer often results
in VHF  radio "ducting" which lets boaters off Baja hear VHF conversations
from S.  California.

When I was working on a drillship in the Davis Straits  (between Greenland
and Labrador) we often had inversion layers which let us  see mountains on
Greenland which were really over the horizon and  invisible. As the sun set
and the inversion broke up the mountains would  fragment and disappear.

Craig Jungers
Moses Lake, WA

On Dec  4, 2007 4:56 PM, Duane Strosaker <strosaker_at_yahoo.com>  wrote:

> Kayakers,
>
>  I'm glad I wasn't crossing  to Catalina Island on Monday evening. The
> navigation could've been a  bit tricky. The island reflected upside down in
> the sky. There's an  article and great photo of at:
>
>
>  
http://sciencedude.freedomblogging.com/weather-causes-catalina-to-look-upside-down/
>
>   The outline you see in the photo is like you are looking down at the
>  island.







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