Beautiful day weather wise, with lots of sun and amazing cloud formations. We left Drunvegan bay and out into open sea, picking up increasing levels of sonar. The view of the snow capped black cuillins stayed with us for hours.
We saw a lot of birds, particularly razor bills, 520 were counted in one half hour shift!
Sonar showed military ships were relatively near by, with only one porpoise sounding.
After a few hours we came across the military, heralded by several aircraft flying overhead. We counted 5 ships altogether, 2 frigates, a destroyer, a supply ship and a marine assault ship; from different countries. Possibly up to 40 ships involved from many nations. The sonar was very loud until we left them far behind mid afternoon.
We continued round Skye, often managing to travel along a transects purely under sail. I got to helm under sail for an hour which was wonderful.
About 4pm we turned towards the Isles of Canna and Sanday and moored in a beautiful bay with a sandy beach.
All but the skipper went ashore (she stayed to cook 😆). I did a beach clean using the large bags and bins provided by the locals. Back to the boat at 8pm for our last evening meal on board and a game of 9 pieces of paper.
Today was probably the best food day. Porridge with my activated seeds for breakfast, fried mushrooms and vegan cheese on very nice white rolls for second breakfast, Chinese style ginger noodles for lunch, freshly made lemon cake for tea, sausages, mash, roast carrots and butternut squash with very mixed salad & avocado dressing for dinner.
With 3 vegans on board the food has been primarily vegan with sausages/bacon/eggs available at second breakfast for omnivores and some cheese at dinner. Other notable meals were a lentil dal with naan & fab salad and a homemade tomato based soup with freshly prepared focaccia. They say that as more and more volunteers are vegan they have decided to make their menu vegan with some extras for non vegans rather than vegan options.
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