Twelve days in and we have still not seen another boat. Even when we’re not able to see boats visually, we can sometimes spot their beacon at a range of 30 or 40 miles with our AIS receiver. But this stretch of the ocean is a lonely one – no shipping routes, no commercial fishing, no anything, apparently.
What we did see today is our first albatross. Our bird book suggests that he was a juvenile wandering albatross – an absolutely enormous bird, dwarfing the shearwaters of our normal morning convoy.
Day Twelve: 161nm
39 21.7S 84 44.9W
