A Funny Thing This Ocean Racing!
It's all Ying and Yang! Moments of extreme pleasure and dispair! The beauty of nature, the ugliness of human detritus.
The pleasure is an almost continuous display of wildlife, going about their daily business. The turtles lazily floating past our becalmed vessel, barely noticing our existence. The dolphins playing endlessly around us, seeming to crave our approval and adulation.
The dispair of hearing a 'thud' and the realisation we have just hit a turtle. The pain of not knowing if it is mortally wounded and left suffering a slow, untimely death.
The beauty of this vast, natural environment, with no human intervention. The seascape giving us an ever changing vista of beauty. The sea colours changing with the depth of the water, the height of the sun, the cloud base and time of day
The ugliness of human detritus, hidden unseen below the surface, waiting to capture or harm one of the innocents below. We, of the human kind, protest our environmental credentials, our commitment to protect our environment from our filth and waste. 14 days have passed and we daily 'tip' into the sea 4 bags of paper covered in human excrement, paper, card, tins and anything else deemed bio degradable!
A Funny Thing This Ocean Racing!!
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