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Caribbean Bath –
lather up with soap, dive in water to rinse. Get out of water before
salt has time to stick to skin
Dinner – lentils, mash potatoes, rice, Jamon {pork} and Soya powder.
Soya powder turned food into glue. Had to chuck out most of it.
Threw out various things to lighten boat. Including 1kg tin of Soya
powder.
Many noises rowing alone in still night. Sometimes sounded like
people screaming. Or babies crying. Wondered if it was previous
shipwrecked souls in their last moments and some how that moment is
preserved here forever… very tired, sea becalmed.
03:30hrs Ship passed by 750m CLOSE. Seems a lot closer having not
seen anything but water for days.
Moon was incredible when set, looked like smiley face then rowing
boat.
Scott heard something with a blow hole, whale or dolphin? |
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N 25° 55.013’
W 020° 10.050’
Distance 2 G-Spot 1325N.M
Sea calm entire day- like oil slick
Lunch: chilli beans with ‘Jamon’(HAM). Brett dropped bowl on rowing
deck. Spoon fell in water- gone down about 4 miles.
Un-even small squalls come out of the clam unexpectedly…
12:00hrs
Saw large whales in distance, at least four of them.
N 25° 57.486’
W 020° 03.864’
Difficult day on body. Every bone seems to hurt.
Scott – hands, lower back, legs.
Brett – lower back, ass.
Bad chafe around & between buttocks.
Conditions: becalmed. Not enough sun to make more than 3 litres of
water. Wind picked up from South but died again in evening.
More things thrown out. Bob, (small storm petrel bird that followed
us from the beginning), named in honour of Bob Barnsley who checked
out all our equipment before leaving land to make sure we had enough
of everything…, checked out the refuse we were discarding. Floated
by the trail making sure we had not thrown out anything important.
16:22hrs
End Day 5
35N.M covered
N25°55.013
W20°03.864 |
