Wildflife
Blue Sky's Voyage
George & Michael
Mon 4 Dec 2006 12:26
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Hello Friends
"22:01.78N
34:56.28W"
Last 24 h distance run
- 167.3 miles
Antigua - 1540 miles
away.
Not much to report in the last day,
so I thought I'd let you know about the wildlife out here.
There are petrels and shearwaters
right out here in the ocean - goodness knows what they find to eat but there are
quite a few. I presume they have some mechanism for 'sleeping' at sea. We had a
petrel land in the cockpit one evening - a bit confused and dropping in for
Happy Hour probably. We've seen large white seabirds with a long tail - not sure
what as our Birds of Britain & Europe is getting a bit stretched out
here.
We saw several groups of dolphins -
one lot particularly game for fun, but nowhere near as many as around the
European coast, We also saw a family of whales a couple of hundred metres off to
port - not close enough to identify but several separate spouts so we thought it
best to leave them well alone.
Mainly we've seen flying fish -
silver ones perhaps 20 - 25cm long and slightly larger iridescent blue/green
ones. They fly close to the surface so our fears about being hit by them on
night watch have been unfounded, as yet.
Best Wishes
George, Michael and the
crew.
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