So here we are back at sea. I've been moved to C watch which used to be known as sick watch as they threw up all the time over the Bay of Biscay, but luckily the weather is beautiful and with the wind right behind us its been smooooth sailing which equals no sick, phew! It's interesting to be under a different mate to see the way they do things. The voyage we're doing now to the Canaries is without the GPS navigational system (aka The Tom Tom); so basically we're going back to the old skool and having to plot our position on charts and using the stars and sun to give us our location. It's pretty cool and we have to use an instrument called a Sextant that looks like something Harry Potter would have to buy for Hogwarts. So far there has been no signs of locust swarms or sand storms, but there is a strange monkey man out there who is freaking us all out at night as he is using the emergency radio channel to transmit monkey and kitten noises and then screaming Romeo, messssage, MessAAgggge, banana radio!! I guess some fishermen must get really bored! Today Mike caught the first Ami-fish, which caused much excitement and blood back aft this afternoon. The fish is called a Mahi-Mahi, it was so big and beautiful, and was actually pretty sad watching Mike and Paul whack it round the face, it put up quite a good fight and got blood all over our peace pole which is kinda ironic. Everyone was running around with buckets and brushes trying to wipe everything up before it stained the deck. Heather is currently cooking it up for tea with fresh homemade bread and spinach souffle, she just informed me that the yeast is alive, but the fish is dead!'.... hhhhmmm should be tasty! I have the 7pm-11pm watch tonight which means I can sleep until breakfast, which is a real treat, and word on the ship is that we're going to be able to see land tomorrow. Other animal related highlights of the last few days are: seeing a huge whale flip, a sea turtle all alone next to a piece of drifting wood, and finally bio-luminescence creates a halo around the boat which is lovely!
 

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