Leaving San Diego, we've had two sea days ahead of us on our way to Victoria. At the present time (Wednesday April 29th – 5:10 p.m.) we have traveled 5,455 nautical miles and are at the moment just opposite Oregon on the Pacific coast. The "motion of the ocean" has been a little higher than normal and has unfortunately taken some ill-effect on Jean. We are hopeful that the winds will subside and the ocean will level out a bit so that we can proceed into Victoria without too much upheaval.

Our plan was to try for lunch/dinner with David and Sandra (friends who live in Victoria) when we dock tomorrow, but that hasn’t been confirmed so we’re just not sure whether that will happen or not. We are scheduled to arrive around two or three p.m. and will hang around in port until 12:30 p.m. when we pull out for Vancouver. We’re not quite sure what the ship does or where it goes for the 6 ½ hours but clearly they must just drift across rather than use any their engines. One of the things we heard at the navigation meeting was that if the Westerdam was to travel at 14 knots rather than 21 knots – they would save enough bunker fuel to allow them to travel an additional 4,000 nautical miles, so much for better fuel economy.

The cruise is all but over now, just two dinners left and we’ll be heading back to Abbotsford. We are hopeful that our car will start ok. It’s been sitting at the long-term lot at the airport now for some forty-three days without being started – let’s hope all goes ok here.