*Ø* Blogmanac October 6, 1914 | Thor Heyerdahl

If you had asked me as a 17-year-old whether I would go to sea on a raft, I would have absolutely denied the possibility. At that time, I suffered from fear of the water.
Thor Heyerdahl

Several times, when the sea was calm, the black water round the raft was suddenly full of round heads two or three feet in diameter, lying motionless and staring at us with great glowing eyes. On other nights balls of light three feet and more in diameter would be visible down in the water, flashing at irregular intervals like electric lights turned on for a moment.
Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki

We saw the shine of phosphorescent eyes drifting on the surface on dark nights, and on one single occasion we saw the sea boil and bubble while something like a big wheel came up and rotated in the air, while some of our dolphins tried to escape by hurling themselves desperately through space.
Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki

1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer and anthropologist born in Larvik, Norway, who became famous for his Kon-Tiki Expedition in 1947

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