about a calm night and a party without us

well - what to say about the trip from the island of salina to cagliari on sardinia?

another 2-nighter...this time we had a little bit this "it´s going to be a piece of piss (i.e. "a gmahte wiesn" in german) sot of feeling  - and it was.

we started off with a beautiful and unexpected sail, as the weatherforecast gave us different info about the start of our trip.

at 10.30pm (mark was just off watch) the wind died off though...completely! leaving us with a rather uncomfortable swell that didn't let me sleep when i was off shift. this time mark and i tried 4/4 hours which suits us much better.

after 10 hours also the swell died and there it was....the thyrennien sea looking like a lake of chrome. our volvo penta works hard against the odd current, but trustworthy as always she pushed us further and further.

hoping to do a sailing-trip to australia we were a bit disappointed to motor....but soon got rewarded with a lot of dolphins swimming with us, staying at the front of the boat for what felt like 10 minutes. just such a special experience. they see you from a far and surely a few would break from the pod just to come and have a look what the heck you're doing out there in the middle of the sea!!!

the rest was fairly unspectacular. until mark discovered that somebody did hitchhike our boat and had a party: a view squids! and they left a bloody mess!!!

at 1.00pm we tied off in cagliari, explored the (to me) rather strange city and had a good night's sleep.

becalmed

looking out for dolphines

a very tacky sunset...yes, we made this photo ourselves!

remains of a squid-party night