2012-02-17

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2012-02-17

The winds remained very light and I sailed from Île Tintamarre to Île Fourchue with full sails at a comfortable 4-5 knots in near-perfect conditions. The anchorage at Île Fourchue had all the mooring balls taken and I was thinking of anchoring (which other boats were doing, but which I thought was not allowed) when one of the moored charter boats dropped lines and departed. I set up my diving gear and dinghied over to one little mooring ball and was very pleasantly surprised that the conditions were just about perfect for diving – 30-50 feet of depth with steep rock drop-offs to a sandy bottom where I could photograph all sorts of flora and fauna.
I did two dives, the second one with the wetsuit on so I could lay in the sand and take pictures. I saw turtles and eagle rays, but both were moving away from me and there was no chance at getting a picture (I do have two pictures to prove I saw them, but the quality was so poor that I won’t post them). After the dives I cleaned up and made dinner aboard, intending on doing some tasks and chores but somehow I ran out of both time and energy and ended up doing nothing at all.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight.

Every. Single. Page.

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies.

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.