A brown sea bird - assigned the nickname of "Silly" - has perched on the satellite dome of Ella's Pink Lady and has provided Jessica Watson with some company and entertainment.
Reporting in her Tuesday, 11/17/09 blog, she comments that: "He's a little brown sea bird that's landed on the sailor 250 satellite dome on the stern of Ella's Pink Lady. Silly earned his nickname because of his dangerous fascination with the wind generator and his amusing attempts to land on the bendy windvane blade. Even though the wind genny isn't spinning too fast at the moment, watching him fly so close to it again and again was a little nerve racking! Anyway he's been sitting there for well over three hours now and seems to have made himself quite comfortable perched on the dome."
Winds have picked up again and Jessica's S&S 34 is moving along nicely about 240 nautical miles south of the equator. She will continue north after crossing the line and round Kiribati in the Line Island group - about 200 nautical miles further - before she heads southeast for her long trek down the Pacific toward Cape Horn at the southern tip of the South American continent.
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