CALISO SUNDAY 2ND DECEMBER
CALISO
Mark
Sun 2 Dec 2007 19:24
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CALISO - Ultimate Fitness Regime
this 1st paragraph is just for the girls.
i've got to tell you about this new fitness spa - Caliso. if, like me, you
have just come back from a week in germany prior to coming to las palmas where
all your lovely friends and relatives have fed you 4-5 meals a day with coffee
and cake thrown in between, then the caliso spa is for you. when you first
arrive you detox for 1 1/2 days - now you do feel a little queezy, but the
stomach shrinking and fasting is worth it. then they put you on a very
healthy regime of fresh fruit, muesli, fresh salad and veggies with loads of
fresh fish and you have to drink lots of water. But, the real difference
to other spas is that they offer a 24 hour muscle training. basically,
every second, every minute, every hour of every day you are constantly tensing
and relaxing muscles. whether you are sitting, standing or lying, it makes
no difference. a hand, an arm, a foot, a leg, a toe at least or sometimes
even your whole body is flexing at any given time. my favourite is the
bottom toner for obvious reasons for anyone who knows me. you sit between
two things called winches and then put your hands in your lap and just trying to
stay in that position is all you have to do. my trousers were tight when i
arrived and they are loose already. you have to change sides of caliso
every now and then to avoid ending up with uneven bottom muscle build-up.
i think that by the time i arrive in st.lucia i will have a toned and svelte
body that has not been seen since my manic aerobic days in my 20s and 30s.
the only downer is trying to sleep whilst continuing the training program and
for some reason or other there is also every conceivable squeak, bang, rattle,
creak, slam, crash and whoosh known to man thrown in too. i think sleep
deprivation must be very slimming. whatever works. i think a life on
the sea is definately a life me for. st. lucia beach here i
come.
ok guys, sorry about that, back to a few
facts. yesterday - saturday- was quite uneventful. after the stick
of previous days the lads refused to even touch the sails and we kept the same
two reefs and sail set of the previous day all day. we passed our third of
the way mark and also our 2nd meridian. hence us not changing our watches
again so we are still on caliso time which is at total odds to the rest of the
world. the log entries are quite amusing!! to celebrate after our
fish curry followed by fresh pineapple, we had a bottle of champus. dave
cleverly got his timer working on his camera and with a dob of blue tack,
managed to take a picture of all six of us. attached. dave also got
very very excited as yesterday was the first day of december and he got to open
the very first box on the advents calendar which becky brought with her -
pirates of the caribbean. the photo of that will be forwarded in a
separate email.
as we speak we are just three miles off our first
thousand, which is our next reason to celebrate with the next bottle of
champus. then it's 1/2 way, then another meridian, then 2/3rds, then 2,000
miles and then when we arrive - so basically a reason to celebrate nearly every
day. happy days.
our power situation seems to be stabilizing after
an afternoon of prodding and poking the batteries and checking every hour.
we dont really want to hand helm the rest of the way - particularly us girls and
particularly at night. we are being very carefull with what we use.
today has been a typical sunday really, becky went
and got the papers early, bob did a full english. mark was in 7th heaven
as he finally was allowed to have some baked beans after days of healthy
stuff. bob and i brought down 20 tins of heinz beanz with us when we
came to caliso in september and mark knew this and it's been a daily
struggle knowing they were so near but he couldn't have any!!
well it's getting dark again - half an hour til bed
time as i'm on the 12-4am with bob. last night i saw 2 shooting stars
as the moon didn't come up til 2am long after our 8-12am shift ended and the sky
was practically cloudless. one went right across the sky. the stars
were out in their hundreds of thousands with milky patches which when looked at
through the binoculars revealed trillions of stars more. quite
amazing. we saw another yacht today too but she was heading north so we
dont think she was an arc boat.
been very cloudy and wavey again today. i
spent all day just staring at the sea and chatting in between and wasn't bored
once. i must admit though i'm easily kept happy. hopefully i'll be
able to send another one tomorrow. jan
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