Wild Life
Christine's Atlantic Circuit
Peter Lansdale
Mon 21 May 2018 16:11
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42'.11.191N 037'.09.037W
Feeding the Fish - Take 2!
No worries, not the earlier sort of feeding.
We had a cunning plan with regard to fishing However, the prospect of wrestling
such a beast onboard, dispatching it in the variously suggested manners (belt it
with a winch handle/drown it with the contents of a particularly bad bottle of
gin purchased for this exact purpose/stick a knife between it's eyes or behind
it's ?brain?)...we resisted at that point. A few days on, having
avoided starvation as previously mentioned, and having created not a small
amount of fridge space, we threw out the tackle with high hopes. It must
have taken a very short time for something big to swallow the lure, hooks, three
weights - one of them fairly big. so we were literally Hook, Line and
Sinkered.
North Atlantic Fishing Stock 1 - CHRISTINE -
0.
Dolphin O'Clock
We have had a few sightings of these lovely
creatures but yesterday (Sunday 20th) we struck gold - 5 sightings in one
day. Different types including small jet black ones, 2m long ones with
lovely creamy underbellies, some of them 'freckled'. All of them playful.
The favourite game seems to be playing chicken with the bow of the boat since
they swim infront of the bow risking being mown down, or so it seems - only to
dive under it and come out the other side smiling. Fabulous.
Whale Watch
Count so far - 4. First one spotted as
CHRISTINE left Islas Palominas P.R. so strictly speaking, maybe doesn't count as
far as the crossing blog is concerned....but who cares?
Thereafter we have spotted 3 more and the last
sighting followed the big dolphin display yesterday. It was a fairly large
one which floated alongside and passed us, only to bask just in view off the
stern. This is something to be thankful for had it been snoozing, since one of
the ARC boats which crossed with Christine and Mr X (I & Ms boat) had a
"dozy whale" bump into them shortly after the start. Whilst no doubt it
may have been hard to say which party was the most shocked, there was no doubt
as to which one came off worst - and, Dear Readers - it wasn't Moby
Dick!
...and as if that wasn't exciting enough, as I
write this, we are 20 miles away from the half way mark. This should
coincide with Afternoon Tea, so a celebration is is order...half of a Christmas
Cake awaits!
L
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