At one with surroundings
Rowtec Support vessel "Desiderata"
Carl Theakston Mark Terry
Sat 9 May 2009 12:40
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Today was potentially a day of being becalmed as
the wind dissapeared altogether, so we turned to the iron sail and motored
towards our next appointment for most of the day until the wind started to fill
as darkness fell and we could at last hoist sails and and make progress with an
ocean swell to help us along, we had a visitor this afternoon in the shape of
what we all agreed was a pilot whale, however brief the flirtation was, it is
always an inspiring and spiritual experience to encounter such stunning wildlife
in their own environment and surely one of the great motivations for being out
here, the Indian Ocean itself has so far been kind to us with it's weather and
supply of food and astounding in its vastness,colour and beauty, we head
further west now feeling our journey with Desiderata is still just beginning and
enjoying a sense of purpose and tranquility with our surroundings.
A fine meal of freeze roast chicken stuffing mash
and veg was the perfect end the sun is setting ahead of us to the north west and
the moon is high and bright in the east
Forza
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