February 5, 2007 - Andamans to Maldives, Day 6
by George & Merima

Hi Everyone!

Yesterday afternoon was full of sea life experiences. I already reported that we encountered a pod of pilot whales. Shortly after, we were chased for about a half hour by a large pod of dolphins, a number of which were jockeying for prime position right under the bow of Moonshadow. We spotted a huge manta ray, whose wing tips broke the surface of the sea as it flew along. Later on we saw dolphins in a feeding frenzy, chasing small tuna who were leaping out of the water to escape becoming "chicken of the sea."

The winds picked up a bit as we rounded the southern end of Sri Lanka, and we have been sailing fast up until about noon today. The log showed that we sailed 205 miles, and we made good about 174 miles towards Male. At noon today, we had just 414 miles to go.

The two wahoo we caught have gone a long way. So far we've had wahoo jerkey, wahoo sashimi, wahoo steaks, wahoo burgers, curried wahoo, wahoo carpaccio and poached wahoo. I think we'll run out of recipes before we run out of wahoo.

Cheers, George, Merima, Thane and Graham