Everyone returned with all of their toes.
Well the sailing gods have seen fit to smile on us today – finally. We had a great day, the sun was shining the weather was warm and I even did some laundry in the sink. Daniel and Adam took advantage of the nice weather and had the first swim of the trip. Daniel was ready to dive in but Adam required some encouragement, he always gets testy when he has to take a bath. I maintained a vigilant shark watch but the guys didn’t stay in very long and no one swam very far from the boat so there were no incidents. The water looked incredibly blue today and they reported that it was quite warm – not warm enough to tempt me to go in, but they said that it was nice. Not long after we spotted a pod of dolphins. I was on the bow of the boat when Adam started yelling furiously and jumping around in the cockpit. I was trying to tie a line to prevent the boom from knocking around and I assumed that I fouled one of the sheets for the headsail but I couldn’t make out the problem. Eventually he screamed dolphins loud enough and I spotted about half a dozen of them surfing the bow wave right at my feet. They were really amazing, we could clearly see them as they made sharp twists and turns and surged through the water. I've been listening to a Sherlock Holmes audio book to make the time go by on my shifts and I believe that Adam has been watching episodes of Night Court that he downloaded to his phone. My knitting scarf is coming along but Adam insists that I should start knitting something useful – like pot mufflers to dull the noise when the boat rocks – his sass has earned him a poorly knitted and salty scarf for Christmas.