Last night between ten pm and two am, on Thomas's watch, two winged visitors landed on our yacht. Sooty terns to be exact. They found comfortable perches on our handrails, one on the bow, and one about midships. They sailed with us throughout the night, and took set to the skies just before sunrise on Don's watch. They normally leave some deposits behind, but not any I can see this time.
Just after sunrise, about thirty big Atlantic dolphins also visited us for a while. White tipped noses, and a clearly visible lateral line, brownish above and whitish below, makes them easily identifiable. I love the energy of dolphins, and how they communicate. I am not referring just to the clicking sounds they make, but more to the telepathic images they convey. Beautiful dreams they dream. Highly intelligent, curious and sensitive creatures, they love to play, surf the swell, and bounce off the energy waves from our hulls. They are free and wild and wonderful friends to have. Amazing therapeutic properties about them as well. So much we don't know and appreciate about them. Like us, they are mammals, and not fish. We think we are superior to all the creatures that shares our planet with us. We miss out on so much because of thousands of years of indoctrination. And we commit so many atrocities to our fellow friends. Have you ever seen your cat or your dog dream? It shows
that
they also have conscious and a sub-conscience states of mind. We have much to learn from them.
Saragosa appeared on the water since this morning. Long streams of this floating, spiky seaweed. Little grape-like airpockets keep them afloat, snagging our fishing lures. They sometimes gather in massive patches, and trap whatever else may be floating on the surface. I haven't seen this much saragosa in such quick succession. Normally you a little bit at first, and it gets thicker as the days progress.
We are two hundred nautical miles from the Amazon river, following the continental contour lines, and the current. In two days time, the azure blue ocean water will turning to a lighter brown shade in two days time when we go closer inshore around Suriname, still following the current and continental shelf. The Amazon river water is also directed this way by the current, and this is where we will meet.
Our boat time is now UTC - 3, in line with the forty five degree longitude line. The earth is divided into twenty four sections of fifteen degrees which gives us three hundred and sixty degrees. Each fifteen degrees denotes one hour, and this gives us our different time zones. Each degree is sixty nautical miles. Times that by three hundred and sixty degrees, and we calculate the circumference of the earth then as twenty one thousand six hundred nautical miles.
The last fee days we light winds, around ten knots, but with assistance from the current we are doing great. Later tonight it will fill in to around fifteen knots, and we will be sailing even better then. All is exceedingly well on our side, and I hope on your side as well.
Until tomorrow
Paul
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