Tikka Masala 03.28N 81.17W
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Fri 26 Apr 2013 04:04
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Another day at sea. Another day with new
challenges.
Last night the little bird that decided to go to
Galapagos with us was offered the bathroom as a resort. The little bird took a
place and we left the hatch open if he/she wanted to leave.
This morning the kids came out crying, the little
bird was dead! We have no idea why of course.
Next challenge has been that Ellinor has gotten
intense migreans (Im not sure how to spell it, in Swedish: Migrän)
so she needs to sleep a lot and I have to take more
watches, but it has worked well. Erika is so sweet she offers to share the
watches with me. We will start doing a light version where we do not put our
lives on her shoulders.
Making dinner looked so boring, we had one more
fish in the fridge that needed to be eaten, and it was time to do something
different.
Spanish Mackerel Tikka Masala! Dada! Elinor liked
it, the kids had sausages with pasta and ketchup. So much for that
creativity...
Next challenge was how to get embarassed at sea...
Read a book. Well how can I explain it...
We got 2000 e-books on two dvd:s in Las Palmas.
They are well organised and I found quite a few really good ones.
Then I stumbled upon Madonna as author in the crowd
of other writers in these files. Mind you, we are looking at Edgar Allan Poe
etc.
So there is this book by Madonna with the title
SEX. Well what can she write about that? Something philosophical? Some
explanations?
Nothing obviously. I turned the first page
electronically on my black and white Kindle, and there was a picture I would not
dare to show to my children.
OK is that an introduction? Lets go to the next...
Oh no! I look around at this endless sea and wonder if anybody can see
me.
Well it does not matter, the book is deleted now. I
do not recommend it. Madonna cannot write, she can only pose and
that...
Next challenge today was actually coming up an hour
ago, no wind. Yes now it finally came, the NO WIND SITUATION that everybody
fears on the way to Galapagos. Pacific turns Pacific so to say.
Right now the engine is running and we are hoping
we are not to far away from the southerly trades that should show up by 2
degrees N.
We are heading to cross the equator by 84 W to get
favorable currents, and then stay close south of the equator line til
Galapagos.
The currents are strong in that region and you do
not want to work against them, The seas will also get steeper if they work
against the flow of the water.
As we cross the equator we have to baptise
everybody by Neptune. Any good ideas on how to do this? My hair will not grow
long before we reach 0 degrees (or so I hope)....
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