Day 21 - blue horizons..........
andromeda of plymouth
Susan and Andrew Wilson
Mon 13 Dec 2010 14:55
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Another day of celebration as we passed below the
1000 miles to go according to our gps, so our came the glasses and another
small bottle of bubbly suitably chilled of course. We did over 140 miles on the
gps yesterday as well and will have to see if we can keep it
up. Today's treat is a shower once the sun has heated the water for
us.We were looking forward to it yesterday but with it being squally and overcas
we decided to wait for the sunshine, so as you read this you can imagine us
under the clear blue skies bathing in lovely refreshing water and being dried
mostly by the gentle breeze over the deck, which simultaneously colls you down
too.......can't wait for my turn.
No new wild life to report and so far the last few
days Andrew has failed to charm a flying fish into jumping into the sails and on
to him. We have seen very many of them skimming over the ocean and it is
fascinating to see how far they can 'fly' and quite spectacular when a shole
shoal leaps out of the water together, it looks a bit like someone has just
skimmed about 50 stones across a pond. We still see the odd bird or two
skimming over the waves no more that a metre or so above them. We haven't
tried to repeat our success/failure on the fishing front becasue we have been
deploying our towed generator and can't put lines over the back of Andromeda
with it out but as we have just bought it in for a while maybe we will have
another go with our one remaining lure.
We have been busy looking at the position reports
of our various friends and so far Nakesa, Alice and Karinja have all arrived in
St. Lucia, hope they keep some rum for us.It has been intereting to watch the
position reports and just see how wide spread everyone was but of course now we
are all converging once again.
We have all been acquiring bruises on this trip the
latest of which has been Andrew who tried again to get rid of a toe nail the
hard way. He is now sporting rather fetching blue covering on the affected
digit which will hopefully keep it out of any more trouble, willl have to see if
I can rig up a light on it for night time just to be really sure none of us
accidently treads on it.
Thanks to everyone who has been emailing us, it is
nice to know there is still a world out there somewhere. So far we have
had emails from Portugal, Canaries, USA , England and Scotland, is there anyone
else out there somewhere else?
Now its time for another sit in the sun with a cold
drink, my turn at Mr Bloggy over for now.
and for some reason queue 'little green
bag'............................
Bye for now
Andrew & Susan and the crew
S/V Andromeda |