Saturday afternoon ~ underway
17 March 2010 | Eritrea, Africa
Dave n Judy
We're still out here sailing away. Right at this moment there is a fishing frenzy! Big fish flying out of the water chasing the little fish & boobies, pelicans diving. Davey dropped his 2 lines in the water. Yesterday, we had to leave that super windy windy anchorage without getting to shore to hike the cinder cone. There was no way we could even think about launching the dinghy. We had to leave at 3AM in order to make it to the next anchorage before dark. At first we had southerlies but just at daylight it switched to northerlies, luckily for us ~ light northerlies. We sailed until the afternoon until the wind was on the nose & we motorsailed into the anchorage. There was only 1 other boat there that had sailed all night & stayed the day. We picked them up in our dinghy when we went over to have a potluck BDay party with our friends who was celebrating their guest/crew/friend's 65th BDay. It was our first time off of the boat since we left Aden last week. We sorta thought of it as "land time". It was a pretty big stretch considering monohulls are known to roll a bit... But we had lots of fun with it! We wanted to make it to Port Smyth/Shuma Island today for snorkeling but with the northerlies couldn't get in before dark so we just pulled into Adjuz. It's gotten overcast & not too inviting right at the moment. We came through a super shallow patch going between the 2 islands that had us terrorized momentarily when we got down to 2 ft on the depth meter but managed to get through there ok.... phew.... Davey caught a beautiful Travali or something.... oh yummm, dinner!