Sunday 11th October (Lini’s Journal)

Brindabella's Web Diary
Simon Williams
Wed 14 Oct 2009 10:21

 

   Dolphins arrived with the rising sun, only today they stayed a while. It was a pod of ten or so and four of these seemed to be joined together side by side diving out of the water at the same time then all falling together with a quarter twist to the right flashing their light bellies. 10/10 for artistic interpretation!

   It was shortly after our morning chat with Cab d’Or and a bowl of strawberries and yoghurt that Si turned a nasty shade of grey. I sent him back to bed and the rest of the day we nursed his poorly head and sickness. (NB. Confirmation of the rumour that strawberries taste the same coming up as they do going down!) He thought it was the wine in the bolognaise so the fish will be having an interesting supper tonight.

   We sailed in lumpy seas with a reefed mainsail shaking the reef out when Si felt a little better. He managed some dry toast in the evening and I hoped I would cope if he was too poorly to do his night watches. Good job he’s a toughy.

  There were high points of the day though; I saw our first whales, two swimming side by side about 50 metres off our beam. Si didn’t catch them so couldn’t identify them for me, but they were about 2 – 2 ½ times larger than common dolphins and looked brown under the sea. Other good news was calmer seas and we both managed some quality sleep albeit in 2 ½ hour chunks.