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Celebrate - Fishing and dolphins



We are just 10 miles South of Christmas Island, having decided to skip this short stopover in favour of the next. Trade winds are now well set with Celebrate almost on a direct track for Cocos Keeling surfing along at 9 to 10 knots. From previous reports Cocos is one of the highlights of the rally so we are looking forward to an extended stay there; ETA 2-3 days.

Fishing boats have kept our night watches busy, the locals don't bother with, radios, navigation lights or AIS (automatic identification system) leaving us little clue of their intentions. We found one trailing a net almost a mile long and another left a buoyed line across our path as far as we could see; fortunately the line was deep enough to sail over--if it hadn't we would have become a trawler for a while!

Not to be outdone we have now put our own line out but no bites yet: bizarrely one (of two) flying fish landed last night on our pile of fishing tackle, unlike the locals we don't fish at night. So the fish can catch us but not the other way round!

The dolphins visited us en masse today, somewhere between 10 and 100 beautiful creatures depending on who you ask, they appear to jump higher than their pacific neighbors.

Charlie, Cathy and Peter

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