Safiya in Southern Hemisphere

Safiya
Harvey & Sue Death
Mon 3 Apr 2017 19:34

Safiya in the Southern Hemisphere

After five and a half days at sea we finally arrived in Galapagos yesterday. The crossing was benign, so much so that we motored for three days out of five. However when there was a breeze we managed to get our big orange spinaker up and bowled along at 10 knots.

There wasn't much action on the fishing front either, just one small Mahi Mahi that we had pan fried between us for dinner. The one that got away though was humungous! A black marlin that fought valiantly for twenty minutes and won, all we had to show for it was a bent hook!!

The night before we arrived in the islands we crossed the equator. Sailors are a superstitious lot and it is a tradion apparently that as you cross the equator you shoul pay homage to Neptune or you will experience bad luck. So we duly dressed up and looked very silly (see pic), hopefully Neptune will look upon us kndly now for the rest of our trip.

The morning that we arrived the sea was like glass and we sailed through a pod of very excited dolphins, somersaulting out of the water.

We are anchored off Santa Christobal which is one of the larger inhabited islands. No private boats are permitted to enter the Galapagos National park independantly, so next week we are going on a week long cruise through the inner, uninhabited islands where we are hoping to see some of the famous Galapagos wildlife.

Today we went for a dive and saw a lot of large stuff, three different types of shark, eagle rays, turles and sea lions. Sea lions are everywhere, if you leave a dinghy in the water it will very quickly be full of very smelly sealions!!

 

 

 

 

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