Blowing in the wind
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Sat 20 Jul 2013 05:08
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Now the gale force winds are here. The boat is very
well protected behind a Motu, but even with that the winds grab the mast and
shakes us. Rain clouds come in and some give us a sprinkle now and then. But
nothing heavy so far. But there is worse to come ackording to the forecast. We
are five boats here now.
Well I get a lot of writing done on the book and
Ellinor is having her painting stuff out. The kids are good at playing and the
atmosphere on board is very relaxed and harmonic.
We are starting to eat quite a lot of canned food
now. Canned spinnach, works fine when you heat it up. Canned pineapple nam
nam.
Canned mushrooms from Panma, canned artichoke from
Sweden, canned olives from Canary islands, canned tuna we bought in Panama,
Bonair etc. It is funny, the further down we get in the bildges the more
surprised we get. OH! Look here is the good Zeta artichoke from home! Wow we did
have more pasta here!
-I guess we are running out of salt, Ellinor
said this morning. We checked our supply list in the computer- search-salt-
answer- salt in the cabinet above Andreas bunk-
Wow 4 kilo! There we have it! We make our own
muessli from stuff we bought at home, Saltå Kvarn, linfrön etc.
- This is the last cheese, Ellinor said the other
day, computer- check list- search- cheese- answer- chese under the bildge in the
fore peak under all the big tools- yes! We have vacumpacked cheese, we packed
ourselfe and now it tastes like an expensive aged cheese (we learned this from
Gustav on S/Y Kaminante, they do this (he was working in the labs of Astra
Zeneca so we trusted him) and we heard they have some explosions sometimes. But
we have been lucky...so far)
Fresh food, all that is left are some lemons
and potatoes. We used the last onion today in an excellent omelett made with raw
fried potatoes.
Wow! now the wind is so hard foam is building up
the water and with that the rain got going strong!
Erika came up flying to the cockpit- Yes it is
raining!!!!!
She collects fresh water for the laundry and she
has really got into it. She goes over the bimini and empties the water into
buckets.
Every liter is a victory!
Before I send this away tonight I have to add about
the food issue. I took the kayak into the village this afternoon, wich was quite
an adventure in itself. Behind the Muto the wind felt strong but managable, but
once I came out from the shelter, still protected by the reefs, but the wind
must have been around 30 knots gusting above, I had full time to keep balance,
going with the wind and the waves is actually the worse.
Anyway I go to Fernando the baker to buy some fresh
baguettes. He is cleaning fish outside his house and he gives me a couple of
fishes he just cleaned. Then he gives me a long lesson about how to get mussle
meat out of mussels, ending up walking into the house and coming out with mussle
meat that he gives me saying -good to look so you know what you should
save, lot's of them where you have your boat, lots of food, GRATIS! - he said
with a big smile.
The fishes we got have a long nose and he called
them Charles Du Gaulle, with a laughter.
Well then I went to the village store and there it
is not GRATIS, I bought one small cabbage and three onions, 4,5
Euro...
I wanted to buy eggs but she wanted to give them to
me in a thin plastic bag and I thought that before they come out of the kayak we
have an omelett....
Paddling back was no big deal, just working against
the waves, but balance feels much better.
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