This morning on my two to six watch, we had two sooty terns catching a ride with us. The nearly half moon was high in the sky, and the two birds and myself were sitting and looking around. I was serenading them with some ukulele tunes, and they in turned amused me with their company. Just before sunrise they set off on their endless pursuit for food again. They left a few droppings behind for us, which took us about five minutes to clean up.
We are halfway past the Dominican Republic and twenty miles from the closest point. The wind and current is very much in our favor and we are leisurely cruising at seven knots, surfing down the swell at ten knots. This time tomorrow we will have Cuba on our port side and Great Inagua Island, Bahamas on our starboard side. We are ahead of schedule and expect to arrive at Fort Lauderdale on Friday or Saturday.
At about noon today we had another little visitor, this time a swallow. The swallow found a comfortable perch a meter away from me, and we sat looking at each other for a while. I asked the little bird where it was from. They travel massive distances when they migrate, and sometimes get blown off course. How they navigate remains a wonder and a mystery, finding the exact same nest from the season before. I told the birdie that land is just twenty miles away and pointed in that direction. After lingering a little while longer, the swallow took to the skies again, and hopefully found land.
On our side, all is good. Following winds and seas. We expect the wind to increase slightly a bit later, but we will sail the winds as they blow.
Trust all is good on your side too.
Paul
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