so sloooowwwwwww

Unsurprisingly I guess, we lost our wind during the night. We've now been motor sailing for the whole day and progress is painfully slow. I'm not even going to tell you how many miles still to go as I don't want to think about it. Position is 38 13.6N, 37 13.07W.

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We're now thinking it'll be sometime Tuesday before we get ashore. The end point seems to be moving out at the same rate as we're approaching it!

Anyway - the main excitement of the day was in the morning as we motored along. Andy and I were driving Barry mad with our chorus of "are we there yet?!" and "can we do some sightseeing today please please please???!". And in the distance I spotted - a tuirtle!!! Hurray - a turtle, we've been looking for one of them to add to our collection of wildlife.

So Barry said - right, let's go sightseeing then!!! And we turned around to pursue this poor unsuspecting turtle. Andy and I scrambled madly for cameras and got a couple of good shots. You can see how amazingly blue the water is. He was quite a big beast, probably a couple of feet wide at least. As we circled around him he took a dive to get away from us, and we were quite surprised at how quickly he could move when motivated to do so. But he surfaced again fairly quickly and we circled him once more before leaving him wend his merry way to wherever he was headed.

We changed our watch hours last night by an hour, which meant I was on deck for the moon rise. It was absolutely stunning. Down to the last quarter or possibly the last eighth, and bright red as it rose. So red in fact that just as the tip came above the horizon, for a brief few moments I had a little internal panic thinking it was the port navigation light of a vessel that had crept up quite close to us!

We've spent the afternoon huddling in the shade of the mainsail trying to stay out of the sun. Down below it's been 33 degrees during the afternoon, the hottest yet - partly because of course we've had the engine running all day. So we welcome the cooler evening temperatures now, and look forward to some wind picking up in the next few hours. PLEASE!!!