I’ve seen it coming for a while now – everyday the counter goes up a little bit more – but I was still quite excited this morning when The adventures of Kudu hit a landmark figure.

I usually wake up in the morning in the bunk of Kudu. Stretch around the bulkhead from the near comfort of the Corribee’s focsle V berth, and grab my mac of the chart table. Then, without having to move too much so early in the morning, I can check my emails and generally do a bit of quick “what to expect today” before I finally convince myself to roll onto the cabin sole and make my way out the companionway.

So this morning I did just that, checked my email – nothing exciting there. Check Google news, pretty much echo’d what Radio 4 had just said. Then check up on this blog. To my utter delight I saw that it had surpassed 10,000 unique visits!!

It’s been doing quite well recently actually, at one point last month this blog was flagged at the number 1 fastest growing blog on Wordpress!

However, it does go someway to proving that blogs don’t make money. Out of all that traffic, and all those readers, I’ve made about a fiver. Five quid. Oh well, I guess I can celebrate with a cheap bottle of wine at least

I never had any intention of profiting from it when I started it though, so I’m not going to complain. I very much enjoy writing, especially about Kudu, and with what’s going on in my life in the immediate future, it’s only going to get, hopefully, more interesting.

So, I’m going to end this post with a thankyou. Thankyou to the 10,000 individual readers of this blog, and a huge thankyou to everybody who makes the effort to send a message. It never fails to put a smile on my face when I get some feedback, even from the chap in the early days that said “a tedious post, why do you bother?”. Haha.

Happy sailing and fair winds to all!