Thursday 27th March

Meant to have a lie in this morning but for some reason we were awake with the lark and just as well really, because we were welcomed with a tranquil sea and misty morning that was bordering on eerie. I was checking the TV to see where we were when Carol said come and look at this. There, floating down our starboard side, was a disembodied island. When I say disembodied I mean we couldn’t see the sea that far out, all we could see was this little peak in the mist. So I took a photo. If I can get them uploaded in Hong Kong tomorrow you’ll see what I mean. We were sailing through the last bit of the Taiwan Strait before entering the South China Sea again and as I may have mentioned before this is a dirty area. We really are sailing through some muck, if they had been searching for that aircraft here they would have had the devils own job finding wreckage. I know you shouldn’t speculate but I don’t think that it is all coming from ships, even though we are in busy shipping lanes, most of it must be coming from the shore line we are sailing down; China. Still not much we can do about it, at least the weather is continuing to warm up and tomorrow is forecast to be 29°C. In Hong Kong.

Today’s talks were the final one from Ian Brown on Kenneth Noyes, (not a very nice man and getting out this year) and Robert Winston Q&A session. They are both getting off in Hong Kong, don’t know who will be our next speakers for the final leg. Can’t believe we are in the final leg so soon, time has flown by. Must go as we want to be up on deck for entering Hong Kong which means a 6am rise.