Landfall

Day 25

Our last day without sight of land… We finally have the conditions we were hoping to have all the way! 20-25kn, Ellida is smooching along between 5 and 7kn, even the occasional 9 down a wave. Water looks delicious, just saw a tropic bird sitting on the water, a funny sight with it's long tail like a droopy danbouy. A shark wandered through the lures behind the boat and an immature gannet circled us for a while, trying to pick up a flying fish for itself. We are very excited to be almost there, but I'm sure we'll miss the open ocean.

(can't put this in blog, but told Andy his biscuit and choc behaviour was out of line. He admitted lying about how much he'd spent on food. A good outcome I hope, we'll see.)

Day 26

We've been watching the glow and lights of Martinique all night, and now the sun is up, there she is. Beautiful lush green land after nearly four weeks at sea. I'm so used to the ocean now, it seems a shame to finish, but the purpose of heading out into it was to cross to land and here we are. It will be wonderful to wash in fresh water and to sleep a full night! Marina was full, but Marcel found us a free space on a council jetty so we have arrived.
first shopping trip was great. Very hot chillie, yams, rum casks, cinnamon in the veggie section.