this photo was of course taken during our 6-9pm watch on day 12, but a few oddities to note from night watch: David and I were nearly done with our midnight-3am watch, under still-overcast skies, shifty winds, and david occasionally falling asleep at the helm -- when suddenly there was a completely random and unexpected lightning flash, turning the whole sky a brilliant pale blue -- if I'd been alone I'd have been certain I'd imagined it, as we never heard any thunder, and the conditions didn't seem to warrant lightning at all -- but we both saw it, and it completely shook us up.
(and FYI, check out the Adventures of Ute, Cora and Allen have been cruising for over a year now, and just recently their boat Ute was hit directly by lightning in Florida -- terrifying! but a fantastic story of their repair of the transmission)
Tim and Mouse's 3-6am watch was less eventful, although they did see the third ship of our entire trip, & it passed only about a mile in front of our boat, heading west -- and the next morning, we discovered a mysterious blotch of squid-ink in the cockpit, somehow one must have jumped onto the boat withour being noticed? the mysteries of night watch...
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