{"id":4979,"date":"2019-12-04T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T08:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T14:46:05","slug":"butterflies-mid-atlantic-well-just-one-actually-a-first-class-sailing-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/butterflies-mid-atlantic-well-just-one-actually-a-first-class-sailing-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies mid Atlantic &#8211; well, just one actually &#8211; A First Class Sailing Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst watching a pod of fin whales the crew of Challenger 2 were treated to something else, also rather special.<\/p>\n<p>N 20.36.88\u00a0\u00a0 W035.14.345<\/p>\n<p>We are scooting along at a decent rate of knots and it feels a bit odd to think we are almost half way across the Atlantic.\u00a0 There\u2019s been a lot of chatter today about what the Ocean looks like\/peoples expectations.\u00a0 The flying fish keep buzzing past, but it\u2019s a little bit strange to think there\u2019s a whole heap of life below us.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve been following the blog you\u2019ll know we saw some whales yesterday, they are sleek and majestic as they cruise along.\u00a0 However, just as the Whales played alongside a tiny orange and brown butterfly appeared out of nowhere!\u00a0 It felt fairly symbolic to me, sometimes we can get caught up with what everyone\u2019s involved in that we miss the beauty of some small moments.\u00a0\u00a0 There\u2019s been a lot of time to stop and think here, allow your mind to wander and be creative, hopefully I\u2019ll carry this forward in 2020.\u00a0 Well, best get back to it, have to continue with my mother watch duties today, feeding everyone and keeping the place ship shape, along with Paul.\u00a0 It may sound like an easy day, but trust me, with cooking on a gimble and navigating from the galley to the saloon (all of a foot) is proving challenging with boat surfing along.<\/p>\n<p>Love to all, Becs xxx<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4984\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4984\" class=\"wp-image-4984 size-full\" title=\"butterfly-against-a-sky\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/butterfly.jpg\" alt=\"butterfly against a sky\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/butterfly.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/butterfly-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signting of a butterfly<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst watching a pod of fin whales the crew of Challenger 2 were treated to something else, also rather special. N 20.36.88\u00a0\u00a0 W035.14.345 We are scooting along at a decent rate of knots and it feels a bit odd to think we are almost half way across the Atlantic.\u00a0 There\u2019s been a lot of chatter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[162,350],"tags":[124,510,152],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arc","category-atlantic-adventures","tag-arc","tag-butterfly-at-sea","tag-challenger-2"],"views":1838,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}