Crab hunting
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Thu 8 Jan 2015 07:08
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Lady Carolina suggested yesterday that we go to a
beach quite a bit from here to hunt land crabs. And so we did...
Funny enough Carolina (yes she has the same name as
the boat) brought big tongs that you use when you BBQ.They turned out to be a
brilliant way of getting mad crabs out of their hideouts. The idea was to lift a
logg and then go for it.
In one place we lifted and found a whole bunch and
they started to run away from us, I was going to close the retreat when I
run into a wasp nest. Luckily they only went after me, but it hurts! I got about
4 nasty bites and after that I was done. In the evening we had a potlock on
Salsa with fish soup (fish from previous hunt), with aioli, fresh baked bread
and crabs. Desert= chockolate cake! Yammme!
Last meal for a while with them as they took off
for Savusavu this morning. Steves parents have been on board a month now and
felt it was time to get off.
It is very very hot now as we have no wind, the air
is very moist and during the day big big thunderclouds are building over the big
islands. So far none of these clouds have hit us. Now as I write this I hear
thunder in the background.
The kids are buildng an entire city from Lego on
the big table in the saloon today, wow! I will show you pictures when we get a
connection again.
We are the only yacht here now but have a radio-net
going every morning were we discuss whats going on in the atmosphere. It looked
for a while as we had nothing to look for but now there is an intense low
forming around the Solomons, it will head for New Caledonia and then it gets
critical, if it forms to a cyclone. We will see. In any case we have to go to
Savusavu around the 12th to pick up a new wind indicator.
By the way, Ellinor does yoga on aft deck every day
and now the kids have started to mimic her, it looks so funny when Andreas does
yoga the way he interprets the movements!
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