Sailing

This morning we went sailing. The Rainbow Warrior has new sails and our captain wanted to try them out. The weather was perfect for it. The wind was blowing, enormous waves around us and a good spirit on board. We launched an inflatable to take some pictures of the ship sailing along. It was a beautiful sight! Four sails with a white peace dove on the first one. It was hard to take some good pictures without getting the camera wet. At a certain point I literally sat up to my waist in water. It was my morning shower. I needed one because I didn't sleep well the night before. The air conditioning was off, so it was very hot in the cabins. A lot of people kept getting up and wandering around during the night because they could not sleep. But after this "morning shower", riding in the Avon (inflatable) and seeing this beautiful ship sailing, I was quite happy.

That afternoon nothing realy happened. I washed my clothes in a bucket and hung them to dry in the wind and sun and relaxed a bit. When you're working on the ship you keep on going. Most of the time you're working, discussing campaign strategies, making plans for the upcoming days, having meetings. So it's rare to be on your own doing nothing. Because of that I enjoyed it. I let the wind blowing in my hair, rocked on the waves and thought about.... nothing and everything at the same time. Your mind flows in all directions, because where ever you look, you only see water. We're surrounded by water. So we have our own floating biosphere here in the middle of nowhere. That's kinda special.