Position at midnight 28 37 86 50A
frustrating day. No hint of whales, in fact a remarkably quiet
ocean, but beautiful calm weather for working with them. Useless for
sailing though, so had to motor all day.
Today is one of the crew, Sam’s, birthday and
an impromptu party, complete with a large cake, candles which had to
be blown out below deck, and a variety of largely pointless
presents, gave a lift to the end of the day.
Around 04:00 finally picked up a sperm whale,
tracked it ‘til daylight and got our first fluke photos of the
season before breakfast. This whale turned out to be a lone medium
sized male, which is typical for this part of the coast and the De
Soto Canyon region.
