On my mile walk this morning, I looked at our wake. The starboard side was as strong as ever, the port side was there, but less strong.

There are many people complaining about the itinerary changes, and dark mutterings that something similar happened last year and the ship was in Auckland for five days. Carol Marlowe, the managing director of P&O Cruises was supposed to be joining us in Sydney, but now won't be. We heard this a couple of days ago. Now we know the reason why!

We handed our passports in today, so that the New Zealand customs people who board in Bora Bora can process them. I guess they'll get on in Tahiti instead.

The girls won the Masquerade Challenge today and the boys were runners up, it didn't matter though, as we all share the wine at dinner. Another team complained that it was impossible to score so highly and therefore we must have been in the earlier quiz for the answers! They were also in the Syndicate Quiz and we scored exactly double their score!!