Day 14: Clipperton Island

A few years ago, when I first started looking into the route we’re now sailing, I came across Clipperton Island. The only atoll in the eastern Pacific, and uninhabited. Well, zero people and 200,000 birds. Plus an awful lot of local crabs. Then Damaris and Rudolf gave us a little book about hard-to-reach islands that featured Clipperton, and after that my interest in this French island was well and truly piqued.

If you’d like to know more yourself, the English Wikipedia page is very thorough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipperton_Island

We weren’t planning to go far out of our way for it, but when the wind died two days ago and the island lay dead to the west, the choice was quickly made. Right after the island we were able to head up, and now we’re in decent wind. Hopefully it holds.

PS Funny thing: according to Starlink we were back in France, of course!