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Ngahue IV - I'm a poor lonesome cowboy...



Fans of Lucky Luke, a Belgian comic strip character created by Morris, will recognise this as the song with which this cowboy, who shoots faster than his shadow, ends each story album. Well, Nieuwpoort, Belgium, where we normally keep the boat, is indeed 2766M away - still. And that's in a direct line! And at the moment we're pretty lonesome out here in the Atlantic, with only zillions of plankton on or near the sea surface, which light up under our waxing moon (what little was visible of it through the clouds), to accompany us. AIS: empty... Radar at maximum range: empty... Visual inspection up to our horizon: empty... And a star-blazing sky? Mostly obscured by the clouds.
Sitting in the cockpit of the boat, seeing time ticking by, courtesy of our highly accurate GPS system, you can freely contemplate all sorts of things, including good old Lucky Luke, one of my favourites in my younger days, and still going strong with young kids in Belgium these days. Belgium being THE country which has sprouted so many cartoon heros. The cartoon (strip comics) museum in Brussels is well worth a visit...
So back to 35°N/57°W: only some 1385M to go to Horta, which we hope to reach by end of this month!
Food, food, fooooooooooooood, cries Woody Woodpecker. Wind, wind, wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind me-cries.



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