Time on board flies by like a bird…or a fish

Ship: Regina Maris
Date: 29th of November 2024
Position: Atlantic Ocean
Geographical Position: 20°54.237N 022°07.878W
Etmal: 145nm
Total: 2686nm

Today, the morning was like every morning, but luckily without cockroaches. They are maybe still there, we just didn’t see any.

Instead we have a new pet since yesterday evening: Raphi, our medic, found a little sick black bird on the main deck and named him Xaver. His new home for the next two days is now a box, which normally has vegetables in it.

Our plan is to take him to Cape Verde and let him out there. Some of us thought about the bird’s back story and his thoughts about the situation.

Here is one interesting theory: Xaver lived on the Cape Verdes and wanted to fly over the ocean to the canaries, but we caught him on the way and are bringing him back now. When he will be home again, his whole family is going to be disappointed in him.

One thing is sure, we are definitely not uncreative and that’s just one example of all the crazy ideas. I hope, that he is not too scared of all the people watching him all the time, because now he is a little attraction.

The bird is interesting and definitely an important and funny thing on board. But way more important is the question: „When are we allowed to go for a swim again?“, because the weather is hot and the bad air in the cabins doesn’t really help against sweat all the time. So stopping the engine and going for a swim is an highlight for everybody.

Today it was a good time to do that, because the wind died. For such a big program point, the lesson needs to wait. So we did a break and nearly everyone climbed up the reeling to jump over board to take a short cool down from the hot sun.

After swimming and jumping from the „Klüverbaum“ to try some new tricks, our captain told us, that the watermaker is broken. That means, we couldn’t take a shower to wash up the salty water. That was bad news, because after a while, salt water starts to itch.

But in the end it was all good, because our great crew member Matthieu fixed the machine and we had water again. And that wasn’t that horrible as the long time period of eight days at the beginning of our journey, when we weren’t able to shower as well. So we are used to it.

While the others lay down in the sun to dry and become tanned, Franz, Maxim and I had the idea to take some music and we enjoyed the beautiful view over the sea from the „Klüverbaum“. The possibility to get tanned there was way better, because there are no shadows.

That is really important for Maxims and mine bet, which says, who is more tannend in the end of our voyage, wins. But no worry mom and dad, I still use sunscreen. 🙂

Over all the dolphins and whales we already saw, there is now another fascinating animal, we can see all day. All the flying fish which flies around our ship looks so cool. Yesterday some of them jumped unfortunately on board and died. But on the Reggie, we reuse everything. So Malte took one little flying-fish-filet and brought it as a handmade snack to our history lesson. That was really funny.

It’s really late and I already did my night watch, so now I want to go to bed urgently to be ready for our last school day of the week. And to be prepared for my next night watch, because we planned to open the first „door“ of our advent-calendars on watch all together. Good night everyone 😉

Bemerkungen:

Anna: An Yannick, Leonie und alle, die mit mir leiden: Ich übernehme keine Verantwortung für den mehrfach geäußerten Ausdruck am Ende des Tagesberichts über den Spieleabend. Das Spiel habe ich übrigens verloren…

Marie: Ich hab‘ heute meine erste Schildkröte gesehen!! Das war richtig toll. Grüße <3

Lea: Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Anni. Habe euch alle lieb und vermisse euch.❤️