Days of whale and dolphins

OceanHobo
Ivan Campbell
Tue 5 Jul 2011 09:14
 
Date  5th July 2011
Time 0910 hours UTC
 
 
Position  32;17.6N
                 25;02.2W
 
Time Zone UTC-2
 
Motored for 7.5 hours yesterday and another 5 during night. Wind still in the west which is also something but very light.
Just North of Sao Miguel although too far off to see it or establish telephone link thus no texts or calls. Sorry
 
Yesterday James spotted a whale blowing 100 meters on our port bow it swam passed our stern and we could clearly see it was a sperm whale. After 5 minutes it breached and dived with tail high in the air. It was a big one probably 30 feet and its square head was very evident. Big excitment!
This morning we had a school of about 30 dolphins around the boat for 15 minutes. What a display!
Lots of terns and shearwaters
 
Menu
Breakfast
Porridge with dried fruit.(Ivan)
Lunch
Ham salad and cheese baps(Simon)
Dinner
Steak onions carrots and potatoes.(time for preparing dinner down from 3 hours to 1 hour)(Russell of course. Superb chef. Must keep encouraging him)So far we have not witnessed James’s culinary expertise nor his dish washing skills.
There will be a day of reckoning. It might be today!
 
One other sail ahead at the moment but only one ship yesterday. It was an inter island ferry.
 
Crew all in good spirits and settling down to the watch system.
Starting at 2000 hours we have 2 hour watches to 0800 hours and then 3 x4 hour watches during the day.