Thursday, April 23, 2009amazing day....
A happy St George's day one and all. It has been pretty incredible aboard the Flying Carrot. Having seen little of anything other than water and sky for the past 90 days today was a red letter day.... We had visits from 2 performing seals, myriad sea birds, the sun shone strong all day the sea was freakishly calm even glassy in some places. I saw the first aeroplane of the voyage, I saw a pod of about 8 whales, about 100 dolphins came past as darkness fell about us. Then when the dark settled there were masses of stars and phosphorescene and when I ws putting out the sea anchor, in the torch beam were thousands of little green eyes inn the water , belonging to some tiny squid like creatures... Absaolutely amazing day.... Also clapped eyes on land....Solander island about 22nm NE of me and I coulkd just see the NZ alps below the clouds - these are about 40nm away so it shows how clear it was... Solander island looks v forbididing - like the rock where chateau d'if is.... Also now in vhf radio range of NZ so hear the fishing boats talking to each other... George, expeditions manager extraordinaire arrived in NZ this afternoon and has already been busy trying to find a boat to escort me in make sure I don't go on them rocks.... Still that probably won't be for a while as weather now predicted rubbish till Tues... Much feasting onboard the carrot in honour of St Georges day and Stan gets the sleeping bag tonight since he is the most patriotic spade onboard.posted by Olly Hicks @ 6:43 AM
