Happy Friday.
So the Strait of Hormuz is open— sort of.
Iran demands that ships use the route in the strait that runs close to its coastline, and the U.S. blockade is still in place. (The U.S. Navy is actively intercepting and restricting ships entering or leaving Iranian ports to cut off Tehran’s revenue.)
Late afternoon, I went down to the Seattle waterfront to see the first cruise ship of the season set sail.
(Mount Rainier, seen from the top of Pike Place Market and looking south along Alaskan Way. That’s Lumen Field Stadium’s roof with the white (home of the Seahawks football team) and T-Mobile Park to its right with the black roof (home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team).
That’s Pier 62 straight ahead. The Norwegian Jade is the first cruise ship to arrive at the Port of Seattle this year and she is at Pier 66.
There is a solar halo in the sky, made by sunlight refracting in the ice crystals inside high-altitude cirrus clouds.
There is a ‘mosquito’ in the sky at the Norwegian Jade’s bow: a seaplane.