No NOT Chanctonbury Cruising Club: Confusion, Clouds & Crabs.
For the trip down from Sines, we left early in the morning, requiring a wake
up at 6am, which in these latitudes equals darkness, and this led to much
Confusion of minds which were not adjusted to dark mornings. This feeling
was increased as the dawn struggled with the light, by a total grey Cloud
blanket: No clouds at all on the menu for ages, total shock. Then when we
thought we were just about awake, and pottering gently south in a smooth
sea, the shout was "sprats all around the boat": However they did not look
like sprats, in fact they were Crabs, everywhere as far as the eye could
see, swimming like mad just under the surface. We sailed through them for
miles. If anyone can tell us about mass migrations we would be pleased to
hear.
On the subject of masses of creatures we also saw literally 100s of dolphins
in a huge school apparently intently eating sardines, it was an immense
sight; fortunately to our port side, as we have had reports that the
dolphins get a bit cross if you get too close when they are feeding.
Well we are around Cape St Vincent, and have been anchored in some lovely
bays, the first on our own under a Moorish fort ...... magic.
The photos as usual will be following: This blog, if it works will be
courtesy of satellite technology; or for you technophobes, "magic".
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