Last nights 'wouw' rising orange moon!

21.30, the 'moonbeam' lit up all the way on port side, stars all over and glowing plankton. In the clouds, I traced an Aladdin's lantern, anything else I could wish for now... it was one of the calmest nights since we left and yessss calmer seas meaning a horizontal sleep again! The past nights have been acrobatic with each one trying to find a sort of do-able sleeping position in very bumpy waves.

Breakfast 'royale' this morning...

an 'omelette aux champignons', Micky's best, with the tastiest Hawaiian pineapples ever, so where ... could we be anywhere better than on board of 'Zephyr' with the sun on our backs and an endless blue view... the sea is currently at 28.5 degrees !! and we have 5km of deep blue below us... While on morning watch, the most amazing birds came by, two by two, they circle the boat then stayed straight above us; they take their time to observe and then off they go, cruising in between the dips of the waves, their extremely long wing tips just not touching the sea. Really beautiful! Some birds are completely black, others half brown half white, but yes, big birds! Seeing the birds means land... in this case it's 'only' an upcoming reef. We are still not halfway but over 800 nm already, the furthest from land I have been for sure ;-)

One can wonder what to do at sea all day...daytime and night time flow over into each other and time and days have become 'lost'. We each live to our own clocks. Yesterday's events: we saw a 'cold front' run, with roaring clouds and this amazing straight line of dark clouds not too high above the water surface; a double rainbow with its colours so bright, we have good books to read, clothes washing today and tonight's sunset was seriously 'theatrical'! Lalo, young and at this enthusiastic age, got us to pull out a code zero, but then the day did end up being 'slightly' different...

This afternoon after the overheated morning we found ourselves surrounded by 7 squalls! Must say an amazing sight and Micky nicely zigzagged us through all of this without even receiving a drop of water on deck.

ah 'Micky'...a word must be said about this 'young' sailor... seeing him yesterday, when up on the front deck first or climbing down under, with the wonderful help of Lalo, to fight with the generator again, which as some of us know, is not that easy to access, has his way of going about on board and in the galley and is def worth a WOUW ! Us crew, and I think I speak for all of the crew out there too, being part of his dream, sailing the globe, thus making it a dream for us too, makes us feel extremely lucky. He never stops and even when later today, all the electronics gave up on us, he stayed remarkably calm... all but the main screen is gone... hopefully we get it fixed as it also means we have no more automatic pilot...luckily tonight... the ocean is dead calm.