Trucial Coast, Day 13 – taxing conditions
First of all, apologies for not posting a log yesterday. We had a bit of a rubbish day and anything written would certainly not have been suitable for a pre-watershed audience!
Archive for December, 2007
Trucial Coast, Day 11 – 1416 miles down, 1416 to go…
Well at 0230 today, our distance travelled from Las Palmas was 1416 nautical miles and our distance to St Lucia along the rhum line was also 1416 nautical miles, which is as good a reason for saying we’re halfway as any!
Trucial Coast, Day 10 – not quite halfway….
Morning all. Unfortunately our Halfway Ho-Down is going to have to be postponed for a couple of reasons. Firstly I may have spent too long in the sun as I miscalculated our ETA at halfway by about 8 hours yesterday.
Life in the Desert
The tracks were unmistakeable, tiny footprints that scuttled across the sand. Close by was at least one Dancing White Lady, an evocatively named spider that rests during the heat of the day beneath the sands of the Namib Desert before venturing out at night.
One Year On
In September 2006, with the cute ‘converted stable’ offices at Stratton Audley bursting at the seams, rumblings began of an office move; it was clear ‘why now?’
Trucial Coast, Day 9 – Whales!
We have had our first whale sighting! I was sat on watch yesterday afternoon and between waves I saw what I thought was a bigger, black rubber buoy or something like that – only 20-25 metres away. It disappeared and then reappeared a couple of more times, once with a second one alongside as they moved off astern of us.
Trucial Coast, Day 8 – nothing to report! Brilliant!
Good morning boat fans! I have some really exciting news today: there are NO INCIDENTS TO REPORT from last night!
Trucial Coast, Day 7 – Wildlife Report
OK, let’s begin today with the promised wildlife update! Between the three of us we’ve heard / seen dolphins on three or four occasions. The best of these was day one but even that wasn’t all that satisfactory as the boat was doing its own Cresta Run at the time and we weren’t really in a position to appreciate the dolphins. We’ve seen quite a few seabirds, especially on day 3. I think they were mainly gulls and petrels (I’m no Bill Oddy….). And we’ve now entered the realm of the flying fish – they’re almost ever-present, and we’ve cleared a few off the deck as well.
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