A warning signal cut the night, as 2 cargo ships passed the boat. I’m ok. A negative drift pushed me 2nm to the S. Today I’m compensating for that. I lost a spoon.
I’m trying to row towards Manado. It is SW. For now, I’m getting only S. Siau volcano looks important.
A lot of turtles and sharks and criss-cross streams, but over the horizon I can see SARANGANI island. It’s Philippines already!
If the conditions are right, it takes about 2 days to cross one meridian (60nm). Once, even 20h were enough. The Eastern length of the 128th meridian will stay in my heart for a while, because it took me 11
A couple of days of complete lull and I’m baked in the sun to a crisp. Meanwhile the tidal current is taking me in the wrong direction.
In 4 days, I met 4 fishing boats. Very friendly people, offered a tow. Thanks, but no thanks - I explained in sign language.
The mission was to approach the land, so I wouldn’t get blown too far East. I had to pass two bays because of head-wind and cross-streams. One of them was only 200m away, but I couldn’t get close, no matter
One day, the ambient temperature dropped to 29 degrees Celsius and it felt a bit chilly. It seams that I have completely tropicalized. Fortunately, I have a sauna at home, will have to live in there :)
The surprise and joy of the week - in a far corner of the storage space I found a pack of dried apples from Latvia. I thought they had run out long time ago, but now, in the Indonesian waters,
As you probably can see in the location map, I’m moving very slowly, but surely in the right direction. Fortunately, it’s not raining and I’m not being pushed back :)