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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