Yesterday we continued eastwards after passing through the Strait of Gibraltar.

This voyage will eventually encompass almost the whole of Europe... starting in Norway to the north, skirting the western reaches of Europe close to Land's End and off the Spanish and Portuguese Atlantic coasts, then passing along the southern European border through the Mediterranean and finally will take us east of Ukraine. If I had joined the vessel a month earlier the work was off the northern tip of Norway, the northern-most part of mainland Europe, in The Barents Sea. That's pretty cool.

Yesterday morning we were off the Spanish Costa del Sol in the Alboran Sea.



We had really weird lighting yesterday and almost a flat calm. This would have been a nightmare in Nelson's day.



I went right up to the bow to take another picture...



... and could hear this kind of plopping, splashing noise. I had a look down and saw this...



There were three little dolphins riding on the bow wave. The plopping splashes were caused by the dolphins jumping and playing.





I kept quiet about this since we have a boat full of Norwegians and you know what they're like. At least there's no Faroese onboard at the moment, although there are a couple working for this company.

And on we continued...