Anais from Germany writes from the Esperanza...
And as the lockmaster is unveiling the curtain we are putting out to sea - leaving behind murmur, feet scraping and rustling plastic bags of the overcrowded cinema. it's the curtain call for sea monsters, herds of white horses riding on top of giant waves, jack o' lanterns and other strange weather phenomena.
I
am Anais, a German deckhand and one of the 35 inhabitants of little
planet Esperanza, sailing endless planet ocean. There are ridiculously
beautiful sunsets, horizontal crewmembers having deep meditations about
their inner organs, and bird crash pilots searching for refuge and
asylum on the helicopter deck. It's Alice's undiscovered salty
wonderland we're in. But unfortunately it's usually assumed to be
nothing more than a 24 hour supermarket for human desires and a trashbin
at the same time. And we're better off showing a bit more respect to
all the forms of sea life above and under the water surface before we
carelessly make species extinct that we have yet to discover.
Esperanza
is not carrying containers -- our cargo is a message -- not to waste
our time mining and drilling for dirty fossil fuels, but use it to
defend our oceans and stabilise the world climate as long as we still
can.
We just had constant falling stars the other night, and
Ignacio, the third mate from Argentina said.. "It makes a little poet
out of everybody". He's probably right.
-- Anais
Illustration - by Anais
