st.lucia, here we come! DAY 16 to 18

at 12:42 pm local time we have 32nm to go

and although it's not that much any more these miles seem to take for ever!
some of our friends have already made it and probably enjoy their well deserved cool drinks on land....how I wish we'd be with them already;) - good on you, guys - congrats from the maloos!!!!!
it is time we'd arrive - with the boat rolling heavily over house-like waves (surely some over 8m) sleeping has been quite hard and doing things below like cooking is just no fun anymore.
if the distance would be any longer we'd probably try to find a nicer angle to the waves to keep the boat still for a day, but I was promised a breakfast in rodney bay on saturday....so no way we can make extra "comfort-miles" ;)

the sailing has been quite good the last couple of days. with only the genoa out we managed to go pretty much straight line for st.lucia - having a record day of just over 180nm in 24h the day before yesterday

unfortunately the wind eased off (as predicted) and for the last hours we had our penta helping us on and off.

there have been the odd squalls and gusts, but I actually enjoyed riding them out. with never more than 32kn it was good fun surfing down the waves doing just over 12kn.

what turns really out to be a shocker are these flying fish! just last night again I had one hitting me from behind on my shoulder costing me at least five years of my total life expectancy.
they really seem to enjoy scaring the sh... out of us by hitting us in the middle of the night.
in fact I do believe they are drawn to the lights on the boat... still you could never be sure about a mean element in these fishy kamikazes now could you?

we are out of fresh fruit - but canned peaches and pears are just as divine! there is still fresh vegetables left - some of it I am going to cook tonight...maybe as a chinese noodle stir fry!?
yesterday we had chili con carne...still a bit of meat left too!

thank god the fridge is getting emptier now, as I had to fit in the bottle of piper heidseck for our arrival! - it is still very abstract to think that we would soon (hopefully) have crossed the atlantic and find ourselves in the caribbean...I keep staring at the chart in our salon and the reality of it still hasn't hit me....most likely it will though in a couple of days like one of these flying fish!