" A LADY TRIP " Sailing around the World, ( presently in the Galapagos Islands)
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Tue 2 Mar 2010 16:09
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Friday 26th February 2010 ( start of
the 5 day tour of the Galapagos )
07.00hrs Stephen climbed out of the bunk , and
studied the charts of the Islands, made notes etc,
Shortly afterwards the rest of the crew appeared
and we had breckfast before heading ashore for the start of our
tour,
It was Pissing rain again, We were beginning to
think that it never stops down here.
Fats and Kevin were leaving San Cristobel around
now in " A Lady" and Susanne from ralley control was also to travel with
them,
However we would not be in touch with them for a
few days, as phone reception would not be available in the areas we were
travelling to !
10.30hrs, We were collected by bus and transferred
to the small ship at the northern end of Santa Cruze ( some 40miles
away)
We met Jannis and Branka from Slovinia, also on the
World trip.
This brought back memories to the Skipper of a
cruise S & A did in Croatia about 6 years ago on a Bavaria 42.
We ran into a mini tornado where the wind reached
speeds of 55knots and Aileen was on her knees praying like never
before
to her friend upstairs in an effort to avoid us
meeting " Davy Jones " prematurly. and it must have worked, because in 30
minutes it was flat calm again.,
12.30 On board the ship, we were given a brief by "
Roderigo " our guide for the next 5 days
and was followed by lunch .
Did you know that " El Nino" means " Baby Christ"
and there was lots of discussions about El Ninos during this trip,
When the EL Nino gets going and the sea temperature
in the pacific warms up, then the weather becomes totally
unpridectable,
not only in the pacific, but around the world
also.
They say here that one of these El Nino's Is due
every 12 or 13 years, so , oh feck, there could be one this year !
ohhhhh noooo
let it be in two years from now,
We will have to Get Aileen working on that
one.
Dave and Sue on " Voyaguer" were telling us that
they did round the world with the " Blue Water Rally" 4 years ago, and got
attacked by Pirates on
their way up to the Suiz Canal,, OHHHHH
thats scarrey stuff.
15.00hrs We landed ( wet landing, means we are
transported ashore by dingy and have to paddle onto the beach)
We landed on Bachas Beach, a beautifull white sandy
beach where Marine Turtles make their nests and lay their eggs, fab to see it
all in real life.
We saw lots of " Blue footed Boobies" ,
turtles, sealions, Flamingos, Marine Iguana's
The snortling was again amazing, just to drift
along with all the fist, almost as if you were one of them, and they did not
seem to mind.
The same on shore, you could stand within inches of
any of the animals or birds and they would take no notice, in fact
sometimes
you would think they were posing for the " Irish
Examiner"
18.30hrs We had a briefing about tomorrows
activities, and this was followed by Dinner.
We met Casey and Hidi from lake " Winnipasakka" in
Newhampshire U.S.A. they are sailing on " Wild Tigris" a swan 76
" Casey " is friendly with Alan Crosbie from
kinsale and has stayed in his house, How small can the world get ?
S & A have stayed in Lake Winnie pasakie a few
years ago when over in that part of the world with our son Paul and his
wife " Christine"
I know I have the spelling of lake ****** wrong,
but it sounds something like that..
23.30hrs we hit the bunks in what were tiny little
cabins, Oh , Aileen got hte job of doling out the cabins to the 16 passingers on
board,
All from the World ARC.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
skipper)
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