eXite - Exite 29/11 - adopted a bird

When eating lunch yesterday Vincent yelled, what I thought was, “vågor vågor” (waves waves), but what he actually yelled was “fågel fågel”(bird, bird = the Swedish sounds for waves and birds sounds almost alike).
My response was “yes we have been at sea for ten days, of course there are waves; nothing new”. Quickly got corrected by Elliot “there is a bird on the boat, its sitting here”.
And they were right. A quite big white bird with really long legs and a long beak was sitting at the guard rail watching us. After a while he flew to the front of the spray hood, and he has been sitting there since then - around 24h - just watching us and the sea and swinging along with the rolling motions of the boat.
He has slowly gotten accustomed to us and this morning he actually came up to me in the cockpit, about 5cm from me, and just sat there watching me. A little while ago he also got brave enough to drink the water we put out for him; but still hasn’t eating anything but honestly, we have no clue what it is he is supposed to eat.
The fly fish we left on deck close to him was apparently not part of his diet..

The kids have named him “Näbbis”.’

No clue when he is going to leave us, but hopefully before Grenada as I don’t really think we want to declare him into the country cause we don’t really know whether he is vaccinated or not…

We also have less than 400 miles to go. Probably 2-2.5 days depending on the calm areas that are developing around us.

We can almost taste the rum punch from here!

//Exite