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Monday, 8 October 2012

At Sea - On route to Mauritius

Hi Everyone,
  
Overnight we went  over the Indian Ocean basin.  Do you know that some areas of it are 6,000m deep!  Awesome to think that there are 6km. of water under us.  I wonder how big some of the creatures are down there!  One yacht once reported being stopped dead in the water and when one of the crew looked out of a porthole (portlight for our USA friends), he saw a huge sucker stuck to it.  That must have been an awesome giant squid to have been able to do that. I hope we don’t meet one of them! 
 
Today the swell is smaller 2.5-3.0m so I have once again undertaken some baking (either I have gone nuts or the sailing is doing me some good as my kids will tell you that I never bake!) and am making a sultana cake for morning tea.  Together with coffee frappe it should be quite good.  Tonight I am also going to use a recipe (yes kids,I am actually going to use one!) to cook some of the Mahi Mahi we caught, in the dream pot.
 
Today we have perfect sailing conditions – gentle breeze of around 12-15 kn., small swell, sunshine, no humidity.  Life doesn’t get much better than this!
 
Keep well and keep smiling.
 
All our love
 
Dimitri and Arti


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