FourSaltySeaDogs

After a couple of days of fairly smooth sailing under main and Code Zero, we are almost at Sal. We expect to anchor in the harbour at Palmeira sometime before midnight tonight. Lovely to see a pod of dolphins yesterday at dawn swimming off the bow, jumping into the air and belly flopping in all directions; clearly not a care in the world! Also found a number of squid on deck yesterday morning; must have come aboard with a wave - not enough for dinner though. After seeing no other ships since we left, we found ourselves on a collision course with a large one the night before last; great to have AIS aboard so that we could easily identify the problem and call them on VHF; they kindly agreed to change course a few degrees and wished us a happy New Year!