East African sailing trip – log 31

SAILING LOG31

September 15, 2005

As usual the Karibu crew is awake and up before the sun. We set our watches forward by an hour. We enjoy our breakfast feasting our stomachs on fresh fruit-salad and home-made yoghurt, followed by toast and cottage cheese with tomato. 

The cottage cheese is made by leaving my home-made yoghurt another day or so longer. I know that at home it might be made differently but this works well here in the tropics as it is pretty hot.

When it thickens and separates – I strain it through a fine muslin cloth folded twice – or a very fine plastic sieve (this really has to be fine – an ordinary strainer is too big). The whey is deliciously healthy and I love to drink it. 

The curds are a good substitute for cottage cheese eaten with fresh tomato or avocado. If you try this don’t forget to take enough of the culture before leaving it to turn to cottage cheese or you won’t have any more for your next batch of yoghurt. 

I complete my laundry – which really only consists of a few colourful sarongs, a few dish-towels and our swimsuits as we live in these. Wolf decides to move our yacht away from the coral-heads and we find a big sandy patch considerably closer to the beach.

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As I mentioned before we are aquarists (although we no longer keep a marine tank) so I’ll probably have to say we are aquarists at heart. We have kept and studied various species of coral in our tank, but my favourite is Bubble coral.

By day, the bubble coral skeleton is protected by fully inflated white, cream or light green bubbles, but at night the bubbles retract and the coral extends sweeper tentacles out to hunt for food, not unlike the tentacles of an anemone. These sweeper tentacles will sting and kill rival corals, so that need plenty of space; up to 12-inches around them.

During our exploration of these coral heads we also see many tropical fish in very good condition, and an assortment of healthy tube-worms. A tube worm (also known as feather dusters) is a worm-like stationary invertebrate that anchors its tail to an underwater surface and secretes around its body a mineral tube, into which it can withdraw its entire body when faced with danger.

They usually have large colourful feather-duster crowns/radioles, these are used to filter out small floating organisms which they redirect to their mouths located at the center of the crown.

Wolf and Rhett take off at sunset for another fishing escapade.  Wolf hooks a barracuda which weighs in at 30kgs and decides to release it. We have enough fish in the freezer, to keep us fed for some time.

This anchorage is gorgeous. We would love to stay longer but the idea is to leave in the morning – we need to make the most of our time here…