Sunday 27 May 2012

Carina en route to the Solomons-day 7

At last, the day dawned sunny and dry (!) with a nice 10 knot ENE breeze and a one meter, gentle seaway. We're on a port-side beam reach (i.e., wind striking perpendicular to the left side of Carina) and we're skipping along at 5+ knots on a mostly southerly course. We crossed the equator (for the seventh time since we've been out cruising) at about 0130 this morning; Philip on watch to offer an incantation and gift over the side to King Neptune.

Our visibility seems almost unlimited although there is not much to see except the blue Pacific stretching out in every direction. This isolation is hard to believe unless you've been far offshore to experience it yourself. The rest of the world seems so detached from our current state.

Sea life has been minimal except for a pod of dolphins, a few boobies, tropicbirds and flying fish. On our first day out, a flying fish (possibly being chased by a mahi-mahi) flew aboard Carina, landed and slapped around in the cockpit sole. The noise aroused Jake and he came to investigate just as Philip was throwing it back overboard. Flying fish have a particularly pungent fishy smell and Jake's nose was twitching as he was trying to locate the animal. We never tire of seeing these animals blast out of the waves and glide for hundreds of feet before crashing back into the waves.

Such is our life on this 7th day at sea with "only" 760 miles left to go.

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