Friday 19th May, 2006
Anchorage: Crag Aig Bay
Position: 56°28.100 N 006°13.100 W
Distance surveyed: 32 nm

After the long and unforgettable journey the previous day, we slept until 8:00 in the morning and found an unexpected sunny day awaiting us. To catch the rare sunshine, we had a quick cereal breakfast before moving on to our daily chores of cleaning and preparation for another day of sailing. Everyone hanged their soaking wet jackets, pants, wellies, towels and etc on rails of the boat transforming it to a ‘sailing hanger’.
Raihan and Percy seemed fully recovered from the sea sick. They looked much better in the morning than the previous day, but surprisingly, Percy couldn’t remember most of the things happened in the previous day.

Duncan and Rob fixed the sails and cleaned up the mess left from the previous day. Then we all had our breakfast of stir-fried egg, bacons and toasts before heading out to the sea. This time, Percy decided to try out Emi’s Japanese medicine for a change.

At noon, we sailed out to the sea around the small islands called Staffa, Dutchman’s Cap, Lunga and Fladda and enjoyed a day of sunshine on deck. The amateur inmates even had a taste of being captain and steering the boat under the guidance of Duncan and Rob from behind.

Although no cetacean was sighted, we saw many sea-birds (even the little cute puffins) and seals. In the evening, we anchored Silurian in Crag aig Bay which is a lovely, quiet, tranquil place with the seals and the little sheep on the close by island being our neighbours for the night.

After a long day, delicious meat pie (or vegetarian pie for Susie) and baked new potato were prepared/served by Duncan, who has by now proven himself a good cook. Our deserts were some Indian sweets which Percy brought all the way from his home town to share with us. They were very sweets but tasty. We then ended the day after drinking our tea and shared our jokes of the day.

Samantha, Volunteer
Hong Kong SAR