Odd Bits about the Moon & Days 9½ to 12

Mapping:

Mapping is a time consuming occupation at best but I can’t ever begin to understand the hardship the early map makers on our planet had to endure.  I suppose at the very least they were standing on their task not remote from it.  The accuracy of the early Cartographers is really amazing.  You know when I was in the R.A.N. (Royal Australian Navy) in the early sixties, 1963 or there about, one of our assignments was to travel up the east coast, mainly the Great Barrier Reef area and check out chart entries made by Captain James Cook and others of that early time.  Now they didn’t have a lot to start with and the only entries that we could not verify were these pertaining to ‘Dirty Water’ or patches there of and a shifting sand quay or two.  Now given the time lapse from the late 1700’s to 1963 I reckon that’s not a bad effort. 

The Moon – First Quarter (Day 7)

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had a bash at explaining a few things (simply) and I’ve tried to keep it in ‘layman’ terms.  There’s a danger in over simplification of distorting fact into fiction (god only knows we see it often enough in every day reporting) but I’ll do my best not to do that.  Thank the ‘Mystery’ that other learned people  write excellent works for us to learn from and I for one applaud them.  It must be great to still have all you’re ‘bit’s’ working.