29 October 2011
This day a year ago, we left Lefkas on our maiden voyage. We've come a long way! To celebrate another anniversary, we baked biscuits and had a Pegasus of Jersey quiz, involving questions like which was the first island we visited in the Marquesas and what month did we go through the Panama canal - Mark was only 2 months out on that one! The kids' geography is still a little shady and I can't wait to buy them a big map of the world so they can plot their journey. They've got the general idea of the oceans (phew!) but it's the continents they are a bit confused!
So I think it was exactly a year ago today that Mark was in the sea, freeing a sack from the propeller, Lochy was projectile vomiting in his bunk and Phil was wondering what on earth he had offered to help us on this our first leg of our journey. And on this trip, Lochy is doing headstands in the saloon, Mark has put the second fishing line out (please please please may we catch a lovely fish?!) and it's just us the Jackson Four. We've had two great days' sail and are about 4 days out of Tonga. Curr position: 18.48S 166.19W