Since we are in stealth mode, I can’t tell where we are, but a clue could be we are in a whale zone. Today, in a 3 hours time period we’ve seen 4 whales. While one got pretty close, I liked watching the one that didn’t mind us and continued swimming to its direction, squirting water periodically. I’ve seen it squirting at least 6 times until it disappeared. It looked like it was whistling a tune, I wondered whether it was a happy song.
There is a different type of wilderness in the ocean, once you are in tune with the sounds and sights, you immediately know an unusual splash means a dolphin, and whales have a distinctive humming as they get closer. I, however, found the clouds fascinating. Not that they are giant and felt too close, there are so many different versions of them. Some look like they are all connected to each other forming a huge mountain of cloud, or they are like pebbles on a beach, or the trees of a forest, all alone but in the brotherhood of each other. I love how they are formed to give a perspective one ahead of the other, reminds me of the times we’ve made toys with my granddad, a theatre screen with different layers.
As I was staring at them, I was also thinking how we humans are capable of giving meanings to clouds we see. Then I saw the little chick like the ones mum made from mashed potatoes, nesting on shredded carrots and lettuce, for when I was a fussy eating kid, motivating me to eat my salad. Then I saw Mavi, my cat, whose mischievous company I’ve been missing. I wonder whether he is going to avoid me after leaving him with a good friend for 6 weeks. I’m pretty sutra he’ll be super grumpy at least for a week. Cloud watching is an amazing game, especially when you have free time and covered by such pretty and wild clouds. At times one wonders how biting them would feel, are they like a giant cotton candy, or a buffalo mozzarella?
On the boat, we are busy with a quiz saga. It all started when Clipper sent us some abbreviations to find meanings of. Then my bunk mate Andy prepared a maritime quiz to be solved by the 2 watches. Then he tasked us to prepare questions for a quiz to Hannah and Ella. Their quiz includes questions from our boat life they may or may not have observed, such as who is in the barbershop quartet. Then there is also the cake madness. I’ve never seen or eaten so many cakes in few days time. There is like an ongoing bake off on the boat and we are baking day and night. Which is good as we have fresh bread, but also massive amounts of cakes. That reminded me of my grandma, as I didn’t have any cakes baked since she did. Still the smell of a fresh cake is mind blowing and soul soothing.
As I’m about to finish this writing, today is a special day as one of my best friends is turning to 50, so looking forward to have a toast with her in few weeks time.
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