Agua Dulce - Log Day 5 – Thanksgiving at Sea

Other than motoring all day long, it’s been a really good day. Because the seas are so smooth (read glassy), we’ve been able to see lots of see life clearly. We’ve seen dozens of turtles of all sizes just hanging out on top of the water. The most exciting thing we’ve seen today – and probably on the whole trip – was a large pod of maybe 20-30 pilot whales. They were swimming together and you could see large ones and small ones – clearly families moving together. One of them raised his head up out of the water, but mostly they were just rolling lazily along.

We offered our British crew, Tracy and Keith, their first American Thanksgiving dinner. We didn’t have turkey, but had to substitute roast chicken leg quarters. We also had cornbread dressing with gravy and a green salad with arugula, apples and sunflower seeds. Sadly, we had no pumpkin pie or pecan pie afterwards, but just cooking the dressing made the galley smell like Thanksgiving.

We are hoping we are far south enough by tomorrow evening to find the easterly winds. Hopefully once we get just east of Cape Verde, the winds will show up and will be consistent. It was fun to have the smooth seas to see the whales and turtles, but we can’t motor across the Atlantic.