Allergic to land?

Well here we are – the start of our 10th week on the Atlantic, and still not a 100% sure when the referee is going to call full time on this game, but we are certainly well into injury time now.
A busy and eventful weekend was had. A good influx of emails, messages and phone calls, so thank you all for that.

Karen & Duncan (people not ducks) flew over our heads back to the UK after a lovely holiday in Antigua (thanks for rubbing it in guys!) and they didn’t even drop us a chocolate supply from the air! Can’t wait to see you though guys.

A merchant navy ship passed us in the early hours of the morning, on the way from Trinidad to Spain. The Captain was very excited about our venture and was on the radio for ages asking endless questions. I couldn’t bring myself round to asking him to be quiet because he was well and truly disturbing my precious sleep time, but when he explained that they were travelling at 18 knots (compared to our 1.5!) I did kind of go off him!! He then explained that they all spend 3 months at sea with 2 months off, to which I replied “Well we will have been at sea nearly 3 months - and when we eventually get to Antigua we plan to take 10 years off!”

Ocean Summit boys phoned us yesterday to share the delight of their landing. Well done boys, we are very pleased for you!!. It gave us a bit of a boost to push on. We’ve also been getting messages of support from No Fear, gquma, Pura Vida and The Reason Why, which already make us feel like we’ve made new firm friends, and are now in a very special “club”.

And today, finally, on day 71 Herdip decided to dip her feet in the big blue. After much build up she finally went over board. Not wanting to over do it on the first time she didn’t put her head under water or get one strand of her hair wet, but she was visited by a beautiful flying fish. Neil Shah – I’m afraid that since she didn’t’ let go of he side it still doesn’t prove or disprove your theory that Indians can’t swim! Her dip in the sea did mean that she has now doubled the number of times she’s had a wash this month.

And lastly having not sneezed once for months, the last 48 hours we’ve noticed that both of us have been sneezing regularly. Now we’re sure it’s not a cold, so can only imagine that its signs of an allergy to land as we get closer …

Happy Birthday today to Lindsey, hope Mickey (the mouse) gave you everything you dreamt of.

Pen Blwydd Hapus yn 6 oed hefyd i Non Wyn, edrych ymlaen i dy weld di.