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One imrimpressed with two distinct wave patterns, one the large

stable swells with uniform spacing and a secondary and superficial surface
agitation conforming in alignment and movement to the local direction of
the wind. The evenly distributed white caps are represented as white
specks or dots, indicating the static nature or the wave movemeit.
Actually they are much larger than they appear from our elevation.

Certain limited areas of the sea support en extra sea withing a sea.
The regular ocean now takes on a new appearance. This encroaching sea
is more realistic in plan than the original being differentiated by color
and pattern alone. It would suggest the mud flats of Great Salt Lake
from the Farmington read level in Utah with the characteristic braided
water system upon the mud flats proper and with the larger natural channels
like muskrat trails leading back into the interior. Grequently one will
find these irregular and linear water paths not associated with the larger
false seas but ramifying alone through the ocean expanse. This new sea
and braided system of channels match the sky in coler shade and is generally
of a greenish blue surrounded by the normally colored dark blue of the
ocean proper.

There are certain instences and particularly during the early morning
when the soft sun rays are reflected down upon the ocean from the cloud
mass directly above, giving the sea a delicate reflection of a blurred
quality. Regardless of how one might adjust his vision or clear the window
of the plene the blur remains a reality. Many of such reflections remind
one of the same quality of light as eminates from the glazed winter ice
on Utah Lake when a white cloud near the horizon passed by. Certain of
these cloud reflections, particularly below and on the undersurface have
a suggestion of red that occurs neither in the cloud or the water surface
itself.

To the west the first high cumulus catch the early faint rays of the
direct sunlight, generally a pink or light red in color and as it is

brought into complete exposure the surface is changed into a delicate