Moving again...very slowly!

We left the bay mid afternoon. The promise of a breeze was heralded with some weak sun trying to burn through the drizzle, unsuccessfully so. As we made our way out of the sheltered bay I became fascinated and distracted by the stipple on the surface of the sea, full of energy, alive, life's longing for itself. Then out of this happy scene, a plump, silver fish tossed itself up into our world, twisting and writhing for just a moment, then gone. Catching my eye, another silver side flashing then falling back with a plop. All around me, fish 12" long and more, literally throwing themselves upwards into the air. Going back out to the open sea I was amazed at what I beheld. Swells the size of football pitches and several meters high, rolling, undulating, marching forwards, some with small breakers aloft, like a waiter's tray held high with the promise of lobster and crab, just a little more, just a little higher! With a slight sense of trepidation I venture out and am awestruck by the vastness of the great hall that has opened up before me. We make our way west and are accompanied by dolphins and sea birds that fly and skim the surface in twos and threes. Today the sea is a very different animal, calm and benign, even in its enormity. As the sun goes down, it did manage a spell through the clouds, it left a lingering blush of pink on the western horizon. And then what little wind there was, that gave us a few knots under the hull, slowly slipped away. I would just heave to but we are too near a lee shore, I can hear the breakers and earlier could see the aqua blue stems with a plumage of white breaking on the rocks, far too close for comfort. So with motor on and the main sale flapping as each swell travels under us, making its own breeze as it goes, we head for the light house on the Westerly tip before turning south. Sailing, like life, can be fickle, yesterday too much wind in the wrong direction with a horrible sea state, today, ocean sublime, no wind at all. I hope it picks up, it's due to.