Land ho!

On the Great Circle route of the North Atlantic - the preferred course of air and sea travel between the East coast of North America and Europe - sits a narrow sandbar 26 miles long. Sable Island is located 150 miles off the Nova Scotia coast at the edge of the Continental Shelf and breaks sea level in the shallows of the northern Atlantic brought to surface by the confluence of the warm Gulstream current and the cold Labrador current and some funky underwater geology.



With the exception of a weather station, some lighthouses, a select few scientists, a herd of wild horses and a continent's worth of shipwrecks, there's not much else on Sable. I've always been fascinated by this spit of sand, so it was a special moment when I flew over it at sunset Thursday night. The crappy iPhone photos don't do the remote beauty of the place any justice, but it's a cool site to behold if you have occasion to pass by or over it.





PS - American Airlines sucks