Tuesday Tidbit-Strait of Messina

 I get horrible seasickness. I'm good on rivers, back bays, or lakes. Oceans? No. It's horrible. The one cruise I went on, I was sick for 2 days once we sailed and on one of the last nights with the heavy swells, it was all over. Never again. I've taken ferries with the same results. Things are going well, I think I'm OK and then...not so much.

Poor Kaya experiences her seasickness based on my own experiences. To be fair, I've never traveled on a wooden sailing vessel below decks. I also do not want to.

The ferry trip in the beginning of Sins of a Rogue is rough on Kaya because the strait is a thin strip of water between Calabria, in southern Italy, and Sicily. The strait connects the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea. Because it's so narrow, the currents are very strong.

This is a photo from NASA's Earth Observatory. This is what they say on their page about the strait: 

Between the island of Sicily and mainland Italy runs a narrow strip of water, the Messina Strait. The Messina Strait’s strong currents can rip seaweed from the ocean floor. The main current runs from south to north, but a smaller current runs in the opposite direction. The currents alternate about every six hours, and the strait’s complicated wave patters can be seen from space.

Image of the Day for April 29, 2007

As beautiful as it looks, I think I'll pass. My poor stomach is as delicate as Kaya's.