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September 14, 2005
No fish today
Sunday, 11.09.
It's Dimi Birthday today. It starts for him with a long sleepout until four o'clock in the morning, when his watch starts. He got a Greenpeace wristwatch with a whale as a present, so from now on taking down positions when he's on duty is really on the point.
The Sun is crawling quickly over the horizon of the dark blue Mediterainian at 06.39h. Unfortunatly the wind went down so we had to put on the engine again and did not have a chance to put it off again until we were going to arrive in Beirut.
Later on Dimi and Leo are trying hard to catch some dinner out of the sea but to their big dissapointment they are not really successful. Either there might be a better way to do it or this is the praxis proof that the Mediterainian is overfished already as well. (Leo is going to try it again in the dark as he wants to try out his night fishing gear but he doesn't have much patience this time.)
Besides that everybody is launching through his watches, sleeping or eating and than starting over the whole routine again.
Greg said far away he saw someting big jumping out of the water and splashing back in again.Sounds pretty much like a whale.
In the evening a cloud front is showing on the horizon. We take down the sails which we still had up for extra power. The clouds are passing by without the expected thunder storm but slight fog is coming up for the night. Everything on deck is getting wet.
Tonight Leo and Christine are cooking tasty chili con carne, chili con queso, chili con soja i sin carne. And for desert Greg even did vanilla-banana pudding with chocolate sauce!!!
After the sun set the moon gleams kitschy on the surface of the water. There are only missing the dolphines jumping in the reflecting light and maybe a nice old, two mast sailing vessel...
We are realizing that we are missing an asthronomical star map on bord so we are trying hard to put all our defuse halfknowledge totgether to tell the stars.
Dorothea
Posted by Hussein at September 14, 2005 3:47 PM