Wildlife

Hamsi
John Anderson
Sun 4 Jun 2017 17:13
It has been a better day for wildlife.  There are substantial numbers of one type of bird.  Sheila will cringe that I
don’t know its name.  It swoops through the troughs and over the peaks of the waves with very little wing movement. 
Presumably this means there is some form of food in the water.  There is still 2/3 of a pre-cooked and chilled chicken
to be eaten.  Sadly I couldn’t eat all the protein if I fished and caught something.  The fishing will have to wait. 
 
During breakfast a large moth appeared out of the sky and settled on the deck in the cockpit.  After some time in the
sun it flew off.  We entered a new air mass in the night accompanied by a brief period of heavy rain, lightning and
increased wind strength.  After a spell with the wind coming from very changeable directions, the new wind is from the
north (up to now the wind has been southwesterly).  Maybe the moth was swept up on land by the brisk conditions at the
front of this air mass and taken out to sea.  Nice to have provided it with some brief respite. 
 
The policy at night so far has been to reduce sail, particularly mainsail, at dusk so that if things pipe up, there
are less problems in the dark.  Glad this was done last night, even though it slows progress slightly. 
 
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