Africa to Starboard, Europe to Port
Hooray from the other side of the Atlantic. It isn’t quite the accomplishment it was 400 years ago, but we have made it successfully across the Atlantic Ocean from FT Lauderdale to Gibraltar. Quite thrilling to emerge from the vast and open ocean into the Straights of Gibraltar, a ten mile stretch of water framed on the south by the Atlas Mountain in Africa and on the North by the Rock of Gibraltar in Europe. (Um, no, it really doesn’t look James Bond-ish at all.)
We mostly had pretty awful weather and very rough seas (imagine the scene in Poltergeist where the beds are lifted and shaking violently and that gives you an idea of the sleeping conditions). Our second to last day was calm and we were visited by dolphins. These are a few of the scores of frolicking visitors and a reflection of us in the immeasurably deep ocean.
