This remote rock on the edge of nowhere has what passes for internet access, but not as any of you know it, except perhaps the pal I have yet to meet who lives out on the furthest edge of Europe where even the English didn't bother to chase them off, and the marauding English got to a lot of far flung places.
Anyway, here are the links to the missing pictures. With a bit of luck, the captions should be in the sequence as the images
Monday, November 14th, to St Helena
-My French Taunter seal
-Idled oil industry plant (2)
-Seal colony at the end of the 5 mile sand spit that forms Walvis Bay
-Zero degrees latitude, some 4,200 n.miles south of Greenwich
-Zeke swims from the eastern hemisphere to the western hemisphere
-St. Helena emerges from murk
-Jamestown's waterfront (2)
-Squid, exactly as we found them on deck
Tuesday November 22nd, St Helena
-Jamestown's suburbs, way up yon'
-taming the topiary at Ann's Place, the preferred hangout. Ann will have a comfortable retirement having sold lousy WiFi at premium prices.
-looking towards downtown Jamestown
-Napoleon's burial site, a peaceful, secluded and well kept spot.
-Napoleon's lock up.
-looking out from the lush interior to the barren coast
-lillies, Hibiscus, Jacaranda and the like grow wild
-country church, CofE civility in the middle of nowhere
-the governor's pile with the million dollar outlook; a governess these days.
-a failed spinnaker halyard block. These are very tough items. The line is utterly immovably jammed.
-the stairway to sore knees
-the barely contained plantings in the Castle Gardens overlooked by Ann's Place
-Zeke installing a halyard block at the masthead. A nauseating task even for he of the iron constitution
Friday November 25, to Fernando de Noronha
-jury rigged hydrogenerator prop, #1
-lazing away the in a hammock? Not really, Zeke was lucky not to be flung waaaay overboard by this slingshot wannabe.
-sunrise rainbow
-a ominous looking start to a day.
-just one of dozens flying fish we cleared off the morning decks. Makes me wonder if their closest living relative is the lemming; and yes I know the legend is a fabrication.
-jury rigged hydrogenerator props: #1(failed), #2 (looks lousy, works great), & #3(failed)
-yellow fin tuna for the next few meals
-first sight of Fernando de Noronha
-a eroded volcano core, no wonder the Brazilians love this place
-frigate bird, enormous, languid and, to my eye, prehistoric looking.
-small blue fin tuna, I think.
-our crafty flying fish hunter.
-tuna #2, yellow fin, I think?
-the island is home to large schools of the aptly named spinner dolphins. Hundreds swim past the boat in the mornings
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