Panama to Marquesas Day 8
Hi everyone. Well its been another delightful day on the high Pacific seas. Today we have passed North of the Galapagos Islands. A real shame we couldn’t visit them, but the cost to take your boat there is prohibitive, something like $3000 dollars. And when you are there, you are only allowed to anchor in one place and have to visit the islands on guided tours. Its all about protecting the marine reserve, which we totally understand and respect, having called the ocean our home for almost two years now. Maybe we will come back around this place again in the future and have the funds to visit next time?
Here’s our location at 1700 local time today:
We have sailed 915 nautical miles since leaving the Perlas Islands.
Today has been another amazing day of sailing with flat seas and light winds that have blown us about 120 miles. Last night at 3 in the morning, someone turned the wind off for 3 hours. We were totally becalmed, with nothing to do but gaze at a star filled sky and watch the phosphorescence in the slow wake behind the boat.
I have been fishing everyday and so far have caught nothing but that seagull. This afternoon I thought I would up the ante and got a second reel out so that I had two lures in the water. Both lures went crazy about an hour ago, and the reels were spinning like mad (like something out of the jaws movie!). I applied the brakes slowly, but in both cases the lines snapped! Lures lost 🙁 So we are down to the last few lures now and not very hopeful we will catch any dinner. Still its been a learning experience, and an interesting moment of utter panic whilst I tried to work out what to do! I think we had something pretty big on the end of those lines, the breaking strain was at least 60 lbs!
I leave you with some shots of this mornings sunrise. It was pretty special.
All the best
Dom & Ailsa