South Pacific 15 April 2011 2:45 a.m. Tahiti Time 43S38 158W56
Light winds tonight, but fine sailing all day. Today’s highlight was a new Albtross sighting a “light-mantled sooty albtross” according to the book, even Kennan exited his sleeping bag to come look, so you can mark it Gary. There are lots of whalebirds too (a.k.a. broad billed prions), they’re pretty little gray/almost blue birds. But we’re not seeing the flocks of Albatross and petrels we had closer to the Chathams. When Gart sailed through this section of ocean 15 years ago or so, he said he heard Orca song through the hull, that would be magical, but nothing heard (or seen) yet. We still need to eat more more tuna, before we can put the lures back in the water, maybe next time we should only put one in, and see if we can stretch the fishing task out longer than 10 minutes this time. Hey – happy tax day.
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