Arkyla - L2D5: Weed!

Finally we have some wind and feel as if this sturdy girl is beginning to find her stride once more. It has been painfully slow for us so far, bur smiles are broader now we are moving at a half respectable pace.

No fauna to report so far today, but plenty of flora… sargasso weed! More weed in fact than you’d find stashed in a 1970’s student flat, though we’re not sure what, if any, effects smoking this stuff will induce other than paranoia that it will clog the Hydrogenerator!

We are 5 days out now and we continue to find ways to add interest to the day. The countdown of NM to destination prompts lessons from history on our chronological trek backward to the birth of JC when we finally heave-to in Port Louis. The twice daily Sealabs water collection is now introduced with its own jingle, and the ‘What 3 Words’ app provides a small level of hilarity (we are right now located at ‘shunted-bodyweight-parties’ which sounds ever so slightly wrong, rude, and/or naughty!)… no more so than when we try to order pizza for delivery over the Iridium (that last bit may be made up).

‘Go weeeeest’ the Petshop Boys once proclaimed, so westward we continue! Onward Arkyla…