Day 133 Water color

Position @ 1900 - We are about 10 miles from Suwarrow but it is too late to approach the pass and get the anchor down safely so we have reefed the mainsail and furled the jib and we have made a course North so that we travel very little at night while we wait for sunrise. Our course ensures that the island is not directly in our lee so that we do not accidentally drift onto the reef. Tomorrow we will turn SouthWest and should reach the pass in less than two hours.
What color is water?
When you put it in a glass and hold it up to the light, it appears to have no color.
When you look into the water on a sunny day in the Pacific Ocean at over 10,000 feet deep, it has a dark cobalt blue color that I have not seen anywhere else. I could look at it for hours.
When you look into the water in the lagoon of a coral atoll at 50 feet deep, it is the same green color that you see in the Caribbean. If the water is a little deeper, the water is turquoise.
This morning I got up and watched the sun rise. As the horizon brightened, the sky gradually went through stages from blue to yellow to orange to red and finally back to blue as the sun finally appeared above the rim of the world. The sea was fairly calm with 1 to 2 foot waves corrugated by smaller wind ripples on the surface. The angles of the wave that were away from the sun were dark gray. Those toward the sun showed all the colors of the spectrum including yellow, red, pink, orange, green and finally blue.
Last night when I was on watch, the sea was in about the same state. After sunset, the stars came out and a sliver of moon was about 30º above the horizon. The water was blue-black to black and where the moon shined on the water, it was silver.
What color is water? It depends.