Another sea day but the Azores sighted
A long day at sea… A rough night before! I didn’t sleep very well during the night owing to being tossed around quite a bit in bed. Apparently I did sleep the one time the engines cut off though! The silence woke everyone else up but I slept like a babe until the engines came back on! Guess I was pretty tired by then.
Towards evening the swell continue to diminish (thank goodness! I’m amazed my computer wasn’t thrown half way across the library there at some points with the rolls we were encountering!) and amazingly we began to see whale blows (or to be precise, modest blush, I did…). Saw a whale come up close to the ship – the expedition leader thought it was a Sei whale, but other than that they were shy little buggers – blowing and disappearing.
As the sun edged ever closer to the horizon, land was finally sighted – Santa Maria, the southeastern-most island in the Azorean Archipelago. Of course, our destination is a little cluster towards the northwest so we still had another 100 nautical miles to go – 10 more hours of travel…
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