Such a very long time…..

OMG – Day 18 at sea and who thought this bit was a good idea – I am having massive sense of humour failure and may well have murdered someone before we get in! We’ve had no wind since last Sunday and have been motoring and so fuel is an issue for us – due to arrive in Fatu HIva all being well on Saturday after nearly three weeks – I am not doing this long at sea again! We are very hopeful that we might have just enough wind to fly the big kite today to save some diesel. I am now a rather fetching Cuprinol orange colour with co-ordinating bright yellow hair despite having a huge tilley hat glued to my head at all times and being plastered in factor 50 suntan lotion – as always really rocking the chic chick at sea look. Doing pilates on a boat tilting backwards and forwards is a challenge not to mention a sight to behold…..

We have been fishing most days but have still only managed to land two tuna – enormous tuna which are just so totally beautiful – I have seared, sushimied, stir-fried etc. We had an absolutely huge tuna on Monday which took ages to pull in and once on board was given the allotted gin and tonic to still it. I had been given the camera to video for Oscar and stood taking some excellent footage of the fight – Oscar rushed to get the scales to weigh the fish at which point it recovered from its g+t and flipped back over the side taking the lure with it! Low morale moment – after we’d recovered Oscar wanted to watch the footage of the huge one that got away….sadly three seconds of my foot and then blank – don’t think I have cracked the technical issues. The next day I sat on the front and watched yellow fin tuna playing in the bow waves just like the dolphins do – they stayed with us for at least a couple of hours and the most amazingly beautiful fish in the water with bright blue and yellow stripes and yet when they jump out of the water they are just silver. On the stern the fishing was still underway with a vengeance – we somehow managed to lose three lures with something clearly absolutely enormous just biting them off! There is nothing out here but tons and tons of sea. Having spotted a couple of whales early on there has been nothing but flying (projectile) fish crashing onto the boat and into the boat! And the tuna jumping around the boat trying to catch the flying fish whilst studiously ignoring our lures – we feel it must have been shark that took the lures.