Warm and sunny Sunday. Today our hosts from TAAF offer special attraction: instead of the lunch in the restaurant we have a BBQ meal on the open deck: on the landing pad of the helicopter. But the sun on the open deck was so strong that they decided to move to the back of the ship (they poetically call this part of the ship “la poupe” ? ) La poupe was not cleaned up – but doesn’t matter – I enjoyed anyway the vegetable salad and the ice-cream on the open air. It was also a chance to take a picture in front of the French flag, historical flag – we sailed under this flag all over the way through the “roaring forties”. Due to the strong winds this flag is a little bit “fatigue” but for me is has a great value even if dirty. I asked the navigation officer if I can take this dirty flag as a valuable souvenir. No response so far. Perhaps they do not have a new one to put it on the mast. Great sunset today. We will cross the tropic of Capricorn tonight.
