Nice start to the day, if cold - temperatures 7C and not likely to get much higher than that. Double figures are out of the question. Occasional sunny spells, the odd squall of wind. Still a fair few boats in after yesterday's crush for the quays. Hordafur II has left port, and is currently south of Point. The Border Heather, our tanker, has finally docked.
People are beginning to put their pleasure craft in the water. One was being taken out of one of the boathouses on Goat Island. Two days ago, one two-masted craft was set adrift by the wind, and lay beached on Goat Island as well. Pictures to come in the diary entry. No damage done. I had to smile when they appeared to anchor in the shallowest part of the basin, but later that day, they were in the normal anchorage.
The cruel practice of the seal cull is running into problems with ice off the Newfoundland coast, eastern Canada. Several boats are hemmed in by ice, and some crews have had to abandon ship. There is a controversial entitlement to cull 270,000 seals annually. A comparable 'tradition' lives about 250 miles north of here in the Faroe Islands, called the Grindadrap. Pilot whales are dragged ashore and slaughtered there and then.
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Nice day here as well Guido although now the earth is cracking through lack of rain. Strange when few weeks back our garden was literally under water. Seal, Dolphin and Whale killing makes me sick to my stomach.
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Are the seals culled only out of tradition or is there some genuine purpose for it? If it is just tradition, then that's a tradition that needs to be done away with.
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