CONNOR BAXTER – PERSPECTIVE
Dayvan Cowboy
// Heading out from Maliko Gulch and soon to enter the conveyer-belt of the trade winds, Connor Baxter maybe ponders why his island is so blessed with this phenome-non. Just above the Hawaiian Island chain, around 30degrees, sits a band of high pres-sure air at the Horse Latitudes which flows southwards the equatorial low pressure belt of the Doldrums. The earth’s spin gives the wind a flick to the left like a marble being rolled towards the centre of a spinning 33rpm LP. So why the Horse Latitudes? Well, when the Spanish traders found their ships stuck in the highs at 30 degrees north for weeks at a time, the grain for the horses would run out and they’d have to throw them overboard.
PHOTO JOHN CARTER