Mosquito Coast, Nicaragua
“Just a knot-tying day at sea!”
Today we continued our quest to reach the Corn Islands in Nicaragua only four hundred miles away from Guanaja island off Honduras. So far we have been averaging seven knots and we seem to be making our estimated time of arrival tomorrow.
We started off our day’s activities with a knot-tying lesson from Jorge Pinzon, chief mate and a lecture by Richard Cahill entitled “Raising of the isthmus”, at which point, we were all hoping for at least one island to rise on our horizon! I believe we can all now relate to the feeling that Columbus’s men had, hoping to see any glimmer of land. The rest of the day was spent watching videos, looking out for wildlife and spending time on the bridge.
As the day drew to an end, we met for recap and Ged Caddick. Our Expedition Leader produced some good news: we were turning the corner at Cabo Gracias a Dios (“Cape Thank God”) - others had obviously passed here before us - plus the wind now behind us would give us the extra speed that we needed in order to make it to the Corn Islands.
After dinner we gathered for an intellectual game of “twister”, made all the more exciting by the movement of the ship, and the crowed roared with laughter. We had definitely overcome the worst!
“Just a knot-tying day at sea!”
Today we continued our quest to reach the Corn Islands in Nicaragua only four hundred miles away from Guanaja island off Honduras. So far we have been averaging seven knots and we seem to be making our estimated time of arrival tomorrow.
We started off our day’s activities with a knot-tying lesson from Jorge Pinzon, chief mate and a lecture by Richard Cahill entitled “Raising of the isthmus”, at which point, we were all hoping for at least one island to rise on our horizon! I believe we can all now relate to the feeling that Columbus’s men had, hoping to see any glimmer of land. The rest of the day was spent watching videos, looking out for wildlife and spending time on the bridge.
As the day drew to an end, we met for recap and Ged Caddick. Our Expedition Leader produced some good news: we were turning the corner at Cabo Gracias a Dios (“Cape Thank God”) - others had obviously passed here before us - plus the wind now behind us would give us the extra speed that we needed in order to make it to the Corn Islands.
After dinner we gathered for an intellectual game of “twister”, made all the more exciting by the movement of the ship, and the crowed roared with laughter. We had definitely overcome the worst!
