Galapagos arrival tomorrow
Noon Position 01deg 37N 92deg 52W
Course – 127 Degrees Speed – 11.2 Knots Day’s Run – 265 Miles
Weather – Grey, drizzly and cool.
Wind – 12 knots from SSW
It doesn’t really feel like we are in the tropics. We have hardly seen the sun in the last 4 days and it has been grey. The seas have smoothed out a bit making the ride more comfortable but we still get the occasional wave that brings us to a standstill. The current is still pushing us along at about half a knot. We are frantically fishing before we enter the Galapagos Park boundary this afternoon. Yesterday we managed to get one bonito tuna. As we pulled it in there was a large grey shadow following it. We got the tuna out of the water just in time before it became shark food.
We haven’t seen much in the way of wildlife of the trip. Our count so far is 1 blue whale, several turtles and this morning we saw a pod of Risso dolphins.
Not far to the Equator now and a very long way from 61 degrees North in Valdez, our most northerly visited point in Alaska.
We anticipate our arrival at San Cristobal tomorrow morning.
JC