feeding Pelicans

Fed these Pelicans this morning, but the fish were still abit frozen so we'll feed the rest when we leave tomorrow. It will take us about 6 days to get to St Helena. I do hope that I will be able to stransmit at sea. Otherewise I will update the blogg in St Helena again.

A big thanks to Peter who is doing the blogg for me when I send the SSB emails.

Map of our progress

Made this map for those of you who don't know where we are. Its from our route book so I had to 'rub' out the other routes and put in ours. I will post it occasionally.

Swakopmund

Rob And Krasni in a Swakopmund street, note the sand dunes in the background! Lovely wide roads and architecture. A really cute town.

This is the view from the road between Swakop and Walvis bay...just sand one side and the sea the other.

Day 6

Siting in Walvis Bay on a swing mooring near the Yacht club.

 Its great to be in calm waters, I feel 'normal' again. 

We filled the 75 small 27l plastic containers and the 

460l bladder tank with Diesel. Quite a mission but soon 

they were all packed away and the spiled Diesel 

washed away. We averaged 1 liter per naut. mile for 

the trip up of 676nm which is what Rob had calculated. 

Ave speed was 8 knotts. The engines are changed 

every 6 hours which means the couple not on duty 

can sleep peacefully.
Watched the movie 'Australia' last night, great movie, 

enjoyed by all.
Went to see the salt works which stretch for miles, 

with huge trucks carting the sparkly white salt. 

Lots of bird life along the way with many Flamingos.

 Also went to Dune 7 where we chatted about all the 

Desert Run tours we did to here. Krazni did the best 

and walked the highest up the dune...not far.
Its still cloudy and cool. Tomorrow we hit Swakopmund 

for a good German breakfast!

yellowtail!

There's the great Yellowtail that Krasni caught. Great shot of him 'flying' onto the boat.

This Seal came to visit the boat as soon as we stopped. The local tour boats encourage them to jump onto their boats for the tourists. He got a stern talking to and did not try again. Ah shame I hear you say...well they make a terrible mess apparently.

Here I am watering my tiny herbs, think they should be ready for eating by the time we get to Cuba! Note the dull Walvis weather!

photos

Loading fuel in the harbour! a slow dirty job but with all hands on deck it was soon done.

These huge Pelicans keep coming to the boat incase there are any bits for them. They are so graceful and really huge. These live near the Yacht club and we could walk very close to them..abit intimidating.

This 'box' is a floating boat garage. It houses a 42ft Cranchi on an airbirth. Its moored at the yacht club and is totally protected from the elements.