"Hot. Sunny. But I guess that's what we expected here. Shipped out right on schedule at 4 a.m. [Thursday morning, May 11]. I vaguely heard the anchor going up. Since we've got quite a few extra miles because of our Panamanian detour, we're really hauling ass. Doing 18 knots today (21 mph), which is quite a change over our leisurely 10 knots of last week. Saw a sea turtle after lunch. At first I just saw sunlight glinting off something in the water as we approached it and thought it was probably a bottle or some trash. But it turned out to be the wet dome of a turtle right on the surface. Not terribly big, hardly bigger than a box turtle at the pet store. A fairly big school of dolphin jumping around early this morning.
"I've added to my boobie collection. Brown boobies. There were quite a few over the bay in Zihuatenjo (along with lots of frigate birds and pelicans). I kinda thought they were brown boobies, but only yesterday managed to get a better look through binoculars. Kinda cute. Has the distinctive 'boobie dive' we saw in the Galapagos. Our three boobie friends from the Galapagos (red-botted, blue-footed, and masked) do frequent these eastern Pacific waters, so who knows, I might run into one.
"Otherwise, ship life quickly returns to routine. The students were staggering around this morning but seem livelier by evening."
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