12 July 2011
Our frozen food has defrosted (we don't have a freezer, just a friendly restaurant in Galapagos that froze some meals I had cooked) and we are on to our last prepared meal. It's been lovely not having to do too much cooking over the past week, but just pulling out a risotto here, a lasagne there. But that's all come to an end. And we need fish. Our lure went out yesterday; we caught a beautiful mahi mahi. Then just as we had it on the back steps it jumped away, luckily not taking our lure with it. This happened not once, not twice but three times. At this stage we changed our lure and now we haven't had so much of a nibble all day. Oh well, there's always tomorrow!
The wind dropped over night so we put one of our engines on, then it's picked up again today, but oh, if only we had our spinneker. Pegasus needs a good stiff breeze to get going and even though we have 15-17 knots of wind, we're doing 4.5 -5 knots of speed only, which is the same as the other boats who have only 9 knots of wind but a spinnekar.
Still, it's beautiful out here. We're really enjoying the sail. There was a beautiful sunset tonight. Mia has been learning how to play taps on the recorder so we are treated to that at each sundown. We're really cracking on with the school work so that we can have a holiday when we get to the Marquesas. I'm not sure we'll have the full 6 weeks off school work, given that we only do a couple of hours a day anyway. I've finally picked up the second volume of War and Peace - really dragging it out, but I'm determined to finish it - if only I could get into it! Curr Position: 05.03S 105.47W