WHALES!
We scored a great siting of humpback whales on Navidad
Bank north of the Dominican Republic today.
The depth goes from over 25,000 feet to 75 feet deep over a very short
distance. It's like a wall. Anyway we burned our eyeballs all day looking
for spouts and finally found a pod just before we went off the west side of the
banks. We saw a full breech (whale
jumped entirely out of the water) and some other good action. There was a mother ship with a bunch of
little skiffs with guys fishing and the whales were hanging around them. We assume they were Dominicans...they did
smile and wave. Looked like a great job to have.
We are going to swing to the south side of the Silver
Banks. There should be even better whale
action there but we are going to pass through in the night. There are reefs and rocks awash and possibly
sleeping whales so we decided to go around vs. straight through. Some time in the early morning hours we
should be able to turn north and head for Mayaguana while keeping the Turks and
Caicos to our starboard side.
Winds increased into the 20's so we have reduced down to
just the genoa poled out. It is a bit
slow and rolls a lot but its easier to deal with wind shifts. Mahi for dinner tonight of course. The sun is getting extremely powerful
now. We are all burning even though we
have the best tans of our lives. I am
sure you are all feeling bad for us;)
Goodnight from the crew of Midwatch.
Bob, Kim, Anna and Finn
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