At anchor in front of Jamestown, Saint-Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean
Already my 4th or 5th time here but It is still as enjoyable.
A rough Island from the outside…
Again I climbed those 699 steep- very steep- stairs of Jacobs ladder. The record is 5 minutes something. Trust me … NOT my record haha but taking my time with picture brakes, around 10 minutes later i am up… with shaky legs! 😉 💪🏻
Jacob’s ladder
The view is incredible on Jamestown. A cute little town with quite some history.
Jamestown, main street
For a French person, Saint Helena is quite a place to be as Napoleon spent here his last years…. The island seems rough from the outside but very green inside with lots of tropical trees and flowers. I love this place! It gives wings! 😉
and of course… I had to stop by and check out on out on our two caf polos from years 2016-17 and 17-18! Still there… but a bit dusty… haha! Such good memories! 🙂
Our class afloat gifts to our « safe place » where we would spend hours on internet and having dinner and drinks
And of course…. I am a sophie, I cannot help it…postcards are a must as I miss you!
My Posted at Sea addiction
Tomorrow we heave up anchor and set sail to Ascension Island ! I will be in Captain Klaas’s watch… like in the old days! He is one of the best captain’s I ever had and I enjoy his presence a lot!
We have two scientists onboard and we do trawls everyday. They check what is in the water but onfortunatly we will only get their results after they studied them in the labs…. Every 6 hours the captain and myself do a meteo observation and we send them them to the netherlands where they will be analysed and transformed in weather forecasts its pretty cool…. but need to catch up on my cloud knowledge hahah.
Trawling with scientists onboard in the South Atlantic Ocean
The good thing is that we then know exactly what the water temperature is for swim calls! Over 24 degrees :))
Swim calls: a great refreshing experience!
We had Easter onboard and as i would usually want to be home with my family I realize it has been years I have not been home for that. The voyage crew did an egg competition…. there were some pretty awesome ones! People have arty farty skills onboard! 😉
Our onboard Easter Egg competition
The past week we have been sailing really nicely with our stunsails. Average 7 knots. I love those sails even though my tough challenge was being the “in between mate” good with computers and fast in correcting charts, I want to be more on deck and enjoy this sail as much as possible.
Stun’sls, known also as Stunning Sails
Keep you posted in Ascension Island! Till then, ⚓️ ♥️
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