A lot of big swell and movement in the night but woke up to lovely blue sky and sunshine. El capitano came on and said that we were now completely clear of the cyclone area and that the swell was just a residual effect from it. Decided to make the most of the sun so took our Kindles up to the pool on the top deck. It was lovely to feel the sun and heat again. Hopefully now we can have some good sunbathing seadays as we cross the Pacific. We painted a...

Some bumps and bangs in the night as the ship moved about but not too bad. When we got up this morning we found a very rough sea, huge swell, grey skies, Force 7 wind. The swell was hitting us pretty much sideways on which I always find the worst as it makes the ship corkscrew a bit. Anyway, we made it up to breakfast and managed to get a hearty plateful down. The captain came on and said that we were keeping a westerly route to keep Aurora out of the m...