Passage to Iquique, Chile, Day 3

16 04.132 S, 74 28.592 W

The passage continues.

Today we picked up a hitchhiker or should I say it dropped onto us. A cormorant flew by and landed on the dingy on the foredeck. When we are on long passages like this one, the dingy is deflated and stowed upside down under the staysail. The cormorant landed and slid around on the dingy due to the rocking on the boat so it opted to hop onto the deck and started to preen and adjust its feathers. This was around 1 pm. It is now 7:45 pm and he is still there. We unfurled the staysail above it but it just stayed there, unperturbed. We wonder how long it will stay and get a ride.

Does it know we are going to Chile?

 

Just before it got dark we saw a large fishing trawler, then we saw the black flag with a buoy floating in the water. We changed course to give it a wide berth. Hopefully that will be the only one we encounter tonight. How is it we see nothing all day long but that as soon as it started to get dark, they appear.

Hopefully the evening watch will be uneventful....

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