Sunday 23rd February

Weather is beginning to cool somewhat as we continue to sail south, though it can hardly be called cold. The pool deck is still a bit of a scorcher and with hardly a breath of wind, more so. Later in the day more cloud began to accumulate and the wind began to coax small wavelets out of the flat calm so I guess we are beginning to get clear of the horse region.

I went to Howard Parkins talk on Mars which had a lot of good video and followed the history of the attempts to visit the planet and later we both went to the documentary ‘Blackfish’ which has uncovered some of the facts SeaWorld wants to keep secret regarding deaths of trainers and the conditions that Orca (Killer Whale) are kept in. Well worth watching if you see it scheduled, apparently it has already been shown on BBC 4. All extremely controversial stuff and SeaWorld have deep pockets. But Dr Ingrid Visser seems to be a feisty character and at the question and answer session after the film gave a good case for them to answer. We spoke to her on Friday morning at breakfast and she was very pleasant, willing to chat for as long as you wanted.

Anyway that’s about it for today, we are going to another Captains cocktails before dinner and tomorrow we are at Tauranga New Zealand.