Wednesday, October 15, 2008

the most dangerous bay in the world

The bay of Biscay, is a name that used to appear in the last page of the log book in the olden days, the last entry before the ship sank without a trace(and not because the books were printed here)
The weather forcast looked dim as we approached the notorious bay , we were expecting 40-60 knots of wind (around 80-100 kmph).
However the planet is not without a sense of irony (how else could it have survived us for so long) , thus we ,who have been fighting against climate change for so long faced sunny weather and blue skies in a part of the world where they are completely unheard of.
To add to the general signs of happiness from our beloved planet, we were also greeted by at least a hundred dolphins over the last few days , who performed various gymnastic acts as they surfed on the bow wave(some of which I have on video) , not to mention the dozens of whales that we have seen in this beautiful bay. One of them today was extremely close to the ship, so close in fact , that she had to dive under the ship to pass us by .

Sometimes the universe throws strange surprises at you, the bay of briscay was certainly one of them.

1 comment:

smeedha said...

yay yay yay...dolphins on video and a whale passing under ur ship...i can almost say i was there when that happened..;)online hee sahee...