Escort
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-02-07 06:09:01
An (adapted) extract from the log recording Briongloid's first cruiseOn the last morning. I raised anchor at 08:00 rescuing two very bewildered starfish from the chain as I gathered it in. With the already set. Briongloid bore off a little and began to move as soon as the anchor cleared the bottom; I had already lashed the tiller amidships and she "self-steered" very smoothly out into as I finished my jobs on the foredeck. Before the morning was out the cliffs of the slid past - the final headland was cleared and a few miles ahead the bulk of Big Sovereign marked our home cove. Just then. I spotted color fins in the water off the turn bow.
I bore up a little to meet them and was thrilled to see the fins move and slice towards me. Within seconds. Briongloid was at the bear on of the school and looking down from her cockpit. I could see polish shapes streaking along beside her a metre or two below the surface. Every few seconds a fin would break the surface as a caught its breath; and sometimes a muscular body would arc completely clear of the water. The dolphins stayed with me for a kilometre or so playing all around while I scrambled to get a clear photo; then two rose into the air side by side landed with a neat manifold disperse and headed east; one by the one the rest of my escort broke off to follow them.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://phibius-log.blogspot.com/2007/09/escort.html
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