We’re 200 miles east-south-east of the Galapagos Islands, making 17.5 knots under sunny skies and a reasonably smooth sea.  3,300 miles away to our west lies our destination, Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia.

When crossing the Pacific, one realises just how vast this ocean is, one that covers 1/3 of the world’s surface. Today has been a quiet one for me, a chance to catch up on some paperwork and get around the ship.  I had just one social function, a lunchtime ‘amuse’ with our Suite guests.  I took my camera, just to get your mouths watering  😆

Hotel Director, Henk (left); Tina, Pinnacle Manager, (in blues) and Cellar Master, Jacques arranging the wine.

We have started the slow roll back of clocks, an hour last night and 4 hours over the next few days, an extra hour makes all the difference and by the time we reach Nuku Hiva we will be 10 hours behind Europe and 5 hours behind the U.S. East coast.  Communications become difficult with these time differences, something we have learned to deal with.

Thank you for all your nice comments, they are appreciated and make this all worthwhile.  Tomorrow, (Thursday), I have my first ‘Captain’s dinner’ and our ‘Black and Silver’ ball.  I took formal dance lessons at Navigation college in U.K.; unfortunately, we had no female partners, so we (male) cadets had to dance with each other.  Is it any wonder that I have two left feet?  😳