We have continued our journey slowly up the Atlantic and have just crossed into the Tropic of Capricorn, it is distinctly warmer. Unfortunately over the last couple of days the winds have not been in our favour and we have been lucky to make 130 miles a day. However the waves continually rock the ship, three to four metres in height even on a calm day. You see them appearing over the horizon, some four miles away, and they gently roll in until the ship is consume...

As we put distance between ourselves and Cape Town outside company became sparse. The occasional fur seal surfaced and gamboled for our entertainment, and some albatrosses and shearwaters circled the ship gliding effortlessly on the wind perhaps seeking interaction to supplement their solitary existence. Very occasionally in the Southern Atlantic commercial shipping will pass but other than that our companions were the ocean, the stars and the weather and would b...