Monday 10th February

The clocks went back another hour last night which gave us another extra hour in bed. They should make it law that we get an extra hour every night it’s great, and the good thing is we get 24 of these extra hours in bed as we go round. With another hour back tonight, we will have had ten of them making us ten hours behind you. Saw the final talk by John Pitt today, he gave an excellent presentation on climate change that exposed the manipulation of statistics by the manmade climate changeologists. Very controversial but inarguable for all that. Talking of climate change, the temperature is still climbing and the sea is getting back to that deep blue azure colour as we head back towards the tropic of Cancer which we are due to cross at 7:30pm tonight, so we will be back in the tropical zone once more.

As we approach Hawaii we are heading into whale territory again, this time Humpback (last time it was the Grey whale, which apparently tend to hug the coast). We are lucky as the Humpback migrates from Alaska to the Hawaiian area round about this time to mate and calf, so there should be a good chance of seeing some. After which they return the 5000 kilometres to Alaska (interestingly, during all the whole time they are away from Alaska they don’t feed and lose about a third of their weight). I’ll have the camera to hand this time just in case, as we are going to be up early and try to see some on the way in.

By the way everyone, thanks for your comments, we have great difficulty accessing the blog on board so I have to send reports via email and photo’s via the cloud for Paul to load on the blog (thanks Paul) but we do get to read the comments and we do get the emails you send to us directly.