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Ascension Island |
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Heart shaped waterfall in St Helena |
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Napoleon's House |
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Jacob's Ladder with 699 steps (took under 15 minutes) |
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Transit Van go as fast as you can... a 1960s model? |
On our previous passage from Walvis Bay to St Helena Island,
we crossed the Greenwich Meridian and passed from the Eastern hemisphere into
the Western hemisphere. I was on watch that night and celebrated with a glass
of brandy and a shortbread biscuit, which I shared with Neptune. Two days
later, on 3
rd February, we crossed the longitude meridian of Hesketh
Bank, our starting point for our circumnavigation of the world. Sal Darago has
crossed every line of longitude on the planet. WOW!! We can’t say we’ve
completed our round the world trip until we cross our course line, which won’t
happen until we reach Tobago in the Caribbean.
We have arrived safely at Ascension Island, another overseas
British territory. The passage of just over 700 miles took 6 days. We had light
winds at first and had to motor for a few hours the first night. The rest of
the trip was under sail. We flew our ghoster (half spinnaker) goosewinged with
the genoa for 3 days and nights. The wind was mainly SE 10-20 knots. The
biggest problem was the toilet breaking the day before we arrived. Jeremy spent
4 hours working in the smallest space on board in quite a big ocean swell,
clearing the pipes and tubes. All I’ll say is he needed a shower afterwards and
had one sitting on the roof. By the way, it was St Valentine’s Day. How did you
spend the day?
Today, 15th Feb, we went ashore, experienced the
art of tying up the dinghy so it doesn’t smash against the wharf in the swell,
and cleared in and out with the Port/Customs and the Police/Immigration. We
paid £15 to the Port and £30 to Immigration. The shop had potatoes, apples and oranges;
the hotel has Wi-Fi at £10 per day and the Saints Club had 2 meals left of tuna
and chips. The needs of a sailing crew are easily satisfied. Drinking water
costs £1 for 44 litres at the wharf and showers are available at the swimming
pool. There are no mobile phone networks. We are anchored off Georgetown in
Clarence Bay next to a beach where green turtles come ashore to lay their eggs
at night. We hope to watch the process tomorrow. Lots of cleaner fish, related
to the piranha but hopefully vegetarian, eat the weed off the bottom of the
boat.
On Monday we leave for Tobago. It’s a big trip and could
take us a month. We won’t be able to blog, email or phone during that time. As
always, we’ll let you know of our arrival as soon as we can.
3 comments:
I should have given you a bottle of Groot Constantia Vin de Constance to leave at Napoleon's house of exile, it was his favourite tipple!
hello to u both.
we are just emerging from another long cold winter.nearly spring like today.bill and yosser asking about u.love the adventure blog.
keep safe,love
david and mary
Received your postcard from St Helena today, it took a month to get here! Thinking of you on your long voyage. Barbara
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