Luckily we are able to keep Stinky going all the time, with the sea as flat as a pancake, she wont fall off the roof and with the engines running all day she is easily powered, and not draining our supply. This meant that we could video call Phoebs for her birthday and have a wonderfully clear picture and sound. What a great birthday she is having skiing just outside of Jackson Hole, Montana USA. They are at a friend’s house all month, working remotely and fitting in skiing around their busy workload. They’ve rented out their New York apartment for the month, it has worked so well for them, and we look forward to seeing them this coming Friday in the Galapagos, for a couple of weeks. The skiing looks amazing, good snow and empty slopes. They had a snow mobile trip in Yellow Stone National Park as her birthday treat, and had an enormous Bison walk in front of them.
It is pretty steamy on board with no wind, but we all managed to do some boat chores. We had great fun watching the boobies chasing flying fish, with a pretty low success rate. They discovered the top of the main sail was a good vantage point. Just as dusk fell we had a huge pod of dolphins frolicking by, loads of spectacular jumps out of the water but sadly they never came to swim in our bow wave. We think we saw a couple of sharks going round and round in a tight circle……maybe we should think twice about swimming, hear there are huge big sharks out here!
For supper Rowan slow cooked a belly of pork and then finished it off in the weber. It is so flat that he was able to put his baby weber on the sugar scoop and then light it with the charcoal I bought for him in Colombia! All on a fire blanket, it worked well even if I was a big worry pot about the whole thing! There were some squalls about that we could see, and a few boats picked up wind from them, but we never got close. The pork went down well with a crunchy peanut coleslaw and a bean salad. Sadly my beans after a day and a half in my new Thermos Kettle Chef were still crunchy. I soaked them in miso soup, maybe I needed to cook them first in plain water? Han our bean expert will have to instruct me!
It was a glorious sunset again, to end the day and I went to bed very happy as I have no overnight shift!
Phoeb’s birthday in the snow
The dark blue and pink are no wind! The hint of green wind ahead of us disappeared….. we will be motoring all the way to the islands!
So much rubbish floating by – an old polystyrene cool box
Perched for prime flying fish spotting!
Our fishing Boobies
Dolphins at twilight
Edmund can’t believe we are having a braai (BBQ) on board!
Impressively Rowan has it all organised on a fire blanket!
Squalls in the distance
Flat, flat seas
The Boobies acrobatic fast fishing skills entertaining us
Hard to believe we are hundreds of miles away from land and this is the state of the sea
Edmund entertains us with Herman Charles Bosman style stories!
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