LAT 23°05.085N
LON 16°14.412W
UTC Time: 21:27:23
UTC Date: 9-11-2011
Course: 181°
Speed: 6.1kn
Today I woke up in Africa. After a calm and nice watch from 00 to 03 hours I slept till 10 o’clock and when awake, I’ve seen a desolated coast with just sand and nothing else. The sea was pretty calm (sea state: 2) but crowded with huge fishing ships and tankers. I’ve never seen such huge fishing ships in my life. They are the size of a proper container ship I guess. Now I can understand how do we manage to over fish our beautiful seas…
Anyway, we’ve been still fishing for our food (our diet is mostly vegetarian at the moment) until some birds I have yet to discover the name (tartugas?) attacked out bait and at last managed to tear the fishing line and leave us without our lovely plastic squid we used as bait. Hopefully no bird was harmed, I sincerely doubt it, because they seemed to be just fatally attracted to the shiny bait, but still smart and skillful enough to avoid the hooks.
The other little disappointment today was, that in all the deserted beach, we managed to find the only tiny peace that had a some kind of outpost nearby so when we anchored to have a nice surf at the local beach brake, we soon had to leave because for unknown reasons they showed us we’re not allowed to stay there.
So we continued sailing. My next watch started at 16h and was supposed to last till 21h (capn’s mistake) and gave me the opportunity to see Dakhlar from far away and enter Western Sahara’s territory.
During the dark hours we’ve been sailing there, we’ve seen a signal rocket, but channel 16 (the emergency channel on the VHS) said nothing about it.
Quote of the day:
“Surfing is not like Las Vegas” David
I don’t really agree because surfing is based on luck, but his explanation is that you cannot just come whenever you want and play… Further debates followed.
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| Sending somee love to Africa |
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| Leaving Tenerife! |
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| Western Sahara coast |
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| Crazy birds |
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