December 7, 2015 – After a cloudy night with here and there a squall and a shower of rain, the day started cloudy, grey and humid. With most of us inside and waves of 3 to 4 meters it was a funny scene to see the 6 of us stumbling around while doing the morning dishes, brushing teeth, cleaning up the ship and pumping water out of the stern. You always have to hold yourself with one hand attached to the ship, leaving one hand free. If not, more black spots are a guarantee!
Around 11AM the sun pushed aside the clouds and we had a great sunny comfortable afternoon. Mariette and Nicoline practiced some yoga on the front deck. Mariette adjusts the program based on the height of the waves so it’s achievable whatever the weather conditions are! For lunch Inge made a lovely stew of canned, great (!) meat, carrots, tomatoes, onions, garlic, with rice.
We eat very healthy and super delicious on board. After 15 days on sea we still have fresh vegetables and fruits. Inge and Mariette have thought through very well which vegies and fruits to eat when. With 15 eggs, 10 oranges, some tomatoes, 2 coleslaws, 1 zucchini, a big bunch of lemons (for all that fish) we can continue our trip for at least 1 week and still have high-standard dishes. As you might already know, our favourite dish is the Mahi Mahi fish curry of Daan and Mariette. But also Inge continues to make culinary surprises for us!
To extend our great sunny comfortable afternoon we put back our time again with 1 hour. Now we have a time difference of 4 hours with the Netherlands. Before we arrive in Saint Lucia we will do it again. We had a long relaxing day, and a cosy (gezellige) gathering (borrel) in the sunset. We could see the sun set in the sea and for a long time after we’ve watched the colourful clouds above it and the changing sky. Beautiful. To quote Inge: the time feels endless here on the ocean. On the other hand, time flies by so quickly. It’s incredible we are already 15 days on sea! We expect to arrive Wednesday night in Saint Lucia, so just 2 more days…
Day distance of today is 200 miles. Only 460 miles to go, which is like going from Amsterdam to Berlin.