Its 1.50pm as I write this post and I am just about to lose an hour of my life as we advance the clocks 1 hour at 2.00pm so that we will be + 2hours ahead of UK.
We are 90 miles off the Namibian coast and in shark water. So we are ‘hove to’ with a bloody mass of meat dangling in the ocean from one of the ship’s davits in the hope of attracting sharks. Sadly after an hour no sharks appeared so the Captain decided to see if he could do better with a rod and line!!
Since Hammerheads have super sensitive smell (1 part in a million) even the smallest piece of meat should have attracted them but as the Captain put it “they were all in conference on the other side of the ocean”!
A Hammerhead shark was spotted yesterday afternoon but you would have had to be on the deck all day to have caught it. Not much wildlife around and the weather is overcast with a long slow swell running. Last night you might as well have been in a schooner or clipper with all the creeks and bangs! We are well ahead of schedule for Walvis Bay tomorrow morning and have been cruising at about 8 knots for the last day or so!! In these conditions a hammock would be very handy.
I did, however, get a photo of a Sooty Shearwater – see the next a last posting for a few days.
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