"We're still motoring, but there's a suggestion the wind
is changing, so there may be better things ahead. ETA
Galapagos still Thursday morning.
"The excitement yesterday was when we caught a fantastic
fish - 120cm (that's almost 4 foot to some of you) long,
though I've no idea what weight. A beautiful opalescent
blue/green dorado - we felt terrible killing it. And therein
lay a problem. Everyone says the best way to kill a big fish
is to put alcohol in its gills; sounds easy, but this monster
was thrashing around so much that I chucked over half a
bottle of malt on the deck before I managed to get 10ml
down its neck. But it worked - I guess it just gives it an
anaesthetic to make execution painless."