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The Natural Navigator
The Natural Navigator: A Watchful Explorer's Guide to a Nearly Forgotten Skill | Tristan Gooley
7 posts | 2 read | 1 reading | 5 to read
Offers a guide to the age-old tradition of navigation on both land and sea through the observation of the Sun, Moon, and stars, weather patterns, landscape, growth of plants, and habitats of wildlife.
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(Continued)...translucent muddy water at one end and an opaque pale green at the other. This effect can be caused by plant matter or algae near the surface of the puddle being blown to one end by a prevailing wind.

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(Continued)...path, the incline and growth on the southern side of the track will cast a shadow on the southern part of the track itself. Moisture is retained, puddles last longer.

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(Continued)...may be a wind direction reversal to a land breeze as the day ends and the night cool draws in. "I can smell the sea" becomes "I suspect that I know what the wind and water are doing!"