Somewhere Beyond The Sea…

… is she there waiting for me?
Just when you thought you had heard enough fom CoCo for a while and another blog post appears. Presently, we are more than halfway from the Azores archipelago to the strait of Gibraltar. We will not be heading straight through the strait, but are planning to stop for a day or so in the Portugese city of Lagos. The reason for our little pit stop is not because of an emergency or other reason for worry. We are just going to stop to wait for a bit of wind. Thursday morning some fairly decent north/north-westerlies will be coming our way and we can swiftly pop through the strait.
For almost a day now we have been having no wind at all, but the days before we have been cruising along at a daily rate of two hundred nautical miles. A tremendous feat!
Apart from sailing we have been eating well and spotted animals of both nautical and avian varieties. Schools of dolphin (not sure that they should be called schools, because they are mammals. Please correct me in the comments below), always have a good time playing around CoCo’s hull, and a large whale passed us at a distance of five metres. What is more, we have seen swallows and butterflies – not a very common sight this far from land. They probably found CoCo to be a nice place for a bit of rest.
Positive spirit! See you in Portugal?