Friday 14th February

We are already 380 nautical miles from Lahaina sailing over underwater mountain ranges. The depth beneath our keel changes from 5,500 metres deep to just 1,000 metres and even less in places. One of these ridges is called the Seadragon Ridge, others less imaginatively called the Ironwood and Embattled seamount ridges. Apparently you can see them on Google earth, no matter how hard we look over the side we can’t see any.

Went to a talk on ‘Exploring the Solar System’ which was okay. It went from the time people thought everything revolved around the earth and all the false impressions different academics have had through the ages through all the discoveries to current thinking that the planets revolve around the sun. It got a bit more interesting when he left us with the question. Is this correct? and put up a video animation, showing our sun travelling through the solar system at 17,000 miles per second with our planets rotating round it, which then zoomed out to put it and us into perspective.

The ladies were presented with a red rose when they went into dinner today, I was waiting for someone to charge me a dollar. That’s what happened the last time someone gave Carol a red rose. Fortunately it didn’t happen this time or they would have got it back 😉 . Mary left hers on the table so I picked it up and presented it to Anna our waitress as we left, she was so pleased she gave me a kiss, didn’t mind that, but it was extra ice cream I was really after tomorrow. I’ll want the rose back if I don’t get it. Carol threatened to tell Laura. Anna wanted to know who Laura was, Nightmare! What was it Shakespeare said about tangled webs. I’ll keep you updated on the ice cream.