We are docked at Tien Sa Port, Vietnam, 7.5 miles from Danang, the third largest city in the country. What most remember of this area is China Beach. Why? There was a TV series that ran for four season from 1988 to 1991, set in an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s at My Khe Beach, Danang. China Beach , had a Rotten Tomatoes score of 94. Show was actually filmed in California. American soldiers use this R&R spot, and provided the nickname, China Beach. No official length, but a series of beaches over a 21-mile stretch of the coastline beginning in Danang, going south. I was here in 2010. A quote from my posting. I am now at the Furama Resort in Da Nang. I walked out to the beach, looked one way, and couldn't see the end of the beach. Then I looked at the other end and couldn't see the end of the beach. China Beach is 20 miles long and mostly about 100 yards wide. Some of you might have watched ...
Day 9 overnight was a different kind of cruise. Ship tossed and turned. Today, still roiling, so we won't be doing much, again. I'll thus start with, from Time magazine , the best space photos of 2025: Galaxy cluster lensing the light of a background spiral galaxy, called an Einstein ring. NASA's Lucy spacecraft, launched in 2021, on 20April2025 payed a call on the asteroid Donaldjohanson ( he was the anthropologist who found Lucy, the fossil skeleton around 3.2 million years old in Ethiopia in 1974, so named because the Beatle's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing in the compound ) between Mars and Jupiter. Video made from a series of photos taken 2 seconds apart. From the James Webb Space Telescope , outflow from a newlyforming star called a cosmic tornado. Mid-infrared view of the planetary nebula, NGC 1514. Star birth featuring Pismis 24. About 2026, here is a video from Space Mog featuring Maggie Lieu on what will happen i...