Velux 5 Oceans - Bugs on Spartan

10:14 PM Sat 30 Oct 2010 GMT

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Velux 5 Oceans Blog entry from Chris Stanmore-Major - Yesterday was an entomologist's dream come true when without warning Spartan sailed through a cloud of insects of all different sorts and nationalities which descended on the decks in an instant and in their hundreds. Inch long black Katydids, a two or three inch cricket, leaf cutters, things that jump, things that scurry and things that fly they were all here. I am not sure what they are doing out here- maybe picked up by an updraft or driven up by a thermal from a bush fire but whatever the mechanism ...

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