Hi Everyone,
All is well with us and we are just a day’s sail out of Mauritius. We should get there early tomorrow morning. It looks as if we will be in time to get securely anchored before we experience our first hurricane!! It is slowly tracking our way and the weather routers think that it may be an issue for us whilst in Mauritius or Reunion. Our choice is to try to save the boat and remain at sea and ride it out or anchor and risk having the boat drag onto rocks or into other boats! Great choice hey? Our choice is to secure the boat as well as we possible can, take what we can down off the outside and get onto land. If we lose the boat, well hey, it is insured and we live to buy another boat or to cut our trip short and call it a day.
Something interesting happened yesterday. Just at sunset approximately ten small squid, around 10cm. long (or 4” for you Americans) jumped onto the back deck of the boat. We were lucky that John noticed them as by the time we got to them to throw them back in, they were already beginning to discharge their ink and make a mess of the boat. I would never have imagined that something so small could propel itself all that way up onto our deck. Even though the flying fish are sometimes very tiny (some around 1.3 cm. (1”) they have fins which are like wings and can actually fly. I found one of them on my bathroom floor. It had flown through the porthole, poor little thing.
We are excited about getting to Mauritius and doing some tourist things. We will be able to, unless the hurricane comes right over us, in which case we will be doing all we can to get the boat ready to survive it.
Lots of hugs and kisses from us.
Arti and Dimitri
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