Setting out for Ithaka

"... green and incredibly exciting!" Originally uploaded by Sibad.

Landfall on Barbados in Young Tiger - 5 January 1966. I sketched this scene a year later. At the time I wrote in the log: "Clouds collected during the night, obscuring the bright moon, and at dawn it was blowing hard with rain everywhere and haze ahead. We stared ahead until our eyes ached. Suddenly a break in the cloud let through a sunbeam which shone on the land about 10 miles off - green and incredibly exciting ..."

A log of the voyage posted on 70.8%

And of course my road is 'a long one'.