Friday, March 16, 2007

Day 9 The birds and the fishes

Where are the fish?
Position N13º12/W116º20
Each morning and evening we are visited by several streamlined sea birds. Mark says they are boobies although they are not the blue-footed variety. We watch them diving for and catching fish that are near the surface. They are very graceful flyers and do some amazing aerobatics once they spot a snack. Since we are several hundred miles from any land, we wonder where these birds go when they leave us.
Schools of flying fish are also visible from the boat. In the morning we usually find several of these little blue fish dead on our deck. This morning we talked to No Regrets and heard a hilarious account of a flying fish that flew through a port and landed in Dave’s bed with him. I wish I could have gotten some pictures - or better yet a video - of that.
We have trailed two fishing lines every day but have had only one strike and it got away. I brought along sushi making materials but have not gotten them out of the cupboard. We head that No Regrets caught a tuna so we are hoping we encounter the same luck.

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