Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Merry Christmas! Last night we hung a “clean” sock outside our bunks and in the morning each one had
some trinkets in it from a sack into which we each put some little goodies. I got a book “Baumgartner’s
Bombay” by Anitabr Desai and a brass keyfob in the shape of a porthole. I now have the only bunk
in the salon with a porthole
Today was a fabulous sunny day with very light winds. We drifted along off the coast of Africa
taking our time and enjoying the day.
Around 3:00 this afternoon the Captain ordered the ship hove to and swim call was ordered. The crew
took eager advantage and piled into the calm deep blue sea. I was ordered into the maintop as shark
watch. This was cool as the water was so clear that from up there it looked like the crew were flying and
swooping in the air.
There followed a great present opening that took nearly an hour. I got all kinds of great goodies,
chocolates, a nice cuban cigar (thanks Kolin), some licorice ropes and a DVD with all his pics from the
first leg of the trip from David and a number of other goodies including a replica “piece of eight” used in
the Pirate Master show that was filmed on board the Picton Castle.
For dinner we had roast suckling pig which was barbecued during the day plus a prodigious amount of
cookies, cakes and pie. Yummy!
As the sun set a group of people sat on the hatch with guitar, boran, fiddle, penny whistle and several
drums acquired in Moroco, playing and improvising complex music. It was awesome!
A long slow smoke of my pipe in the twilight while the music played was a lovely end to a beautiful day.
I hope you all had a great Christmas with your loved ones.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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2014 Postscript
Here are pictures from our Christmas off the coast of Africa
These were not uploaded till January in 2009 when we reached Senegal.
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