Monday 3rd February

We continued our track up the coast of Baja California Mexico passing San Barolome and the islands of Cedros & Guadalupe. We are scheduled to pass the boarder between Mexico & USA (Bishop Rock) at about 02:00am. We have seen more whale spouts intermittently during the day but nothing close and not to the numbers we saw yesterday. They must be making their way down the Mexican coast for entry into the Gulf of California. Temperature continues to fall, now 17°C and we have had showers today. Another 600 miles north to go yet. Forgot to mention we passed the tropic of Cancer yesterday so we have moved out of the tropical zone and back into temperate seas. Carol less pleased than me. I went to a talk on Gandhi and Carol went to a Sushi demonstration and then we both went to a question and answer session with the Captain which was probably more interesting than either. He leaves us in San Francisco and the next one takes us back to Southampton. We will lose about 500 passengers in San Francisco so that means we will gain about the same number. Four people leave our table, Michael & Elizabeth and Michael & Carol so we will have to see who replaces them. That’s about it for today. Formal night again tonight so got to get ready for that (lobster on the menu).