Day 13 - a fishy tale
28 January 2011
Catherine
Lochy woke up this morning and said "this isn't our usual sea." Meaning; not a ripple out there. Pure still blueness. Ie, another day of no wind, so the engine has been on all day again. We put the clocks back another hour, so we are GMT -2 now. Alan, ever determined to catch a fish, had the lucky lure out at first light. Couldn't resist the old, putting-a-can-of-tuna-on-the-end-of-the-line gag today as it looked like another day of fishy nothingness. However, whilst he took the joke in good humour, this seemed to spur Alan on to get a blasted fish. He changed the lure. We continued to rib him about his lack of fishing prowess. Then he caught a fish. A beautiful one too. No idea what it was. Beautiful blue/yellow in colour, with a sail for a fin, a long tail and a blunt rounded face. Any ideas? Tasted good, and none of us have dropped dead yet, so everyone was happy. Chloe cooked us amazing foccachia bread for lunch and pizzas for dinner yesterday, so enjoyed her 'feet-up' day today. Mia and Lochy wrote their message in a bottle, that was given to them as a present by Aunty Wendy and we enjoyed watching them drift off. At this rate, they'll get to land on the current quicker than us!! However the forecast is for the wind to start picking up from tomorrow, so fingers crossed...Posn 17.19N 36.49W