Three days at sea now but never boring. Had breakfast in the restaurant where the Captain joined us. I said the trip last night through miles of tiny fishing boats all carrying tiny lights made me feel the ship was like the Starship Enterprise travelling through the Milky Way! He was very amused but said that there were so many of them so close that he stayed on the bridge till midnight.They were so close and the night so still he could hear them reading the name of the ship and calling out greetings to us.
He also said that during the immigration debacle yesterday a woman scratched one of the Officers so badly she drew blood! He said if he could identify her she'd be packing her bags and he'd put her off with the SAS armed guards off Sri Lanka!
Watched the launch rendezvous and the guards and guns transfer and disappear towards the hazy outline of Sri Lanka.