The curious encounter with an owl 23:30.78N 022:55.38W
Sonar
Ray
Sat 21 Nov 2009 15:30
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Yesterday,Friday the 20th November at 11.30,
we spotted an owl. It was 40 centimetres long with brown plumage and looked
strong and healthy. It flew round the boat twice and then headed off north in
the general direction of the Canary Islands. We pondered at length what an owl
would be doing 300 miles from the nearest land, and came to the only possible
answer. For the rest of that day we kept a sharp lookout for a 'beautiful pea
green boat' with or without a pussy cat on board. Having no honey of our own on
Sonar we thought this might make a useful variation to our rather bland diet of
bacon and eggs, cheese and ham and smoked salmon,steak,chicken, pork fillets in
curry sauce, and ice-cream and fruit flavoured yoghurts, so far. Also, plenty of
money wrapped up in a five pound note could buy lots of rum in
Grenada.
Was the owl searching for a 'pussy cat overboard',
or had they run out of honey forcing him to try to find a supply? Whichever it was, he clearly took one look at Sonar's senior
sailors and decided we would be of no use to him. Could it be that his small
guitar had broken a string, and the pussy cat, fearing suggestions of a
cat-gut replacement drove the owl away with tooth and claw, electing to sail the
pea green boat single-handed.
I hope the owl made it to Tenerife and is sunning
himself on Las Galletas beach with a cold beer at hand.
The Owl and the Pussy Cat (Apologies to Edward
Lear)
The owl and the pussy cat went to sea in a
beautiful luxury yacht.
They took smoked salmon and laughing cow cheese,
and tea bags to brew in a pot.
They sailed away for a year and a day, to Grenada,
they call it Spice Isle.
They lay on the beach and swam in the 'oo', and
decided to stay for a while.
The owl serenaded his pussy cat love to the sound
of a local steel band,
but when cat catawauled and raucous owl
hooted,
Grenada said 'Git awf ahr laand'.
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