Location is north pacific ocean in between 170oE and 180o the temperature is now much lower at 6oC and the weather is not as good so we have changed route and will be tracking slightly lower than before which means we won’t be going into the Bearing sea anymore we will sail just south of the Aleutian islands at the moment we are due to arrive into Prince Rupert on wednesday the 4th at 5 am and I’m told we will stay in Prince Rupert for about 24 hours and i will be able to go ashore and hopefully publish some of my blogs to the internet.
Tonight we will be crossing the International date line and as we are in a ship and going slowly to change the clocks back 12 hours would be madness as an example you could have your supper at 7 p.m. go to bed at 11 p.m. and then at midnight it would be 6 am and the crew get up at 7 am so that means they would get 2 hours sleep, so this ship from leaving Tokyo on Tuesday has put its clock forward every night since leaving and also we have for the first time in my life had two Friday the 31st’s too, so tonight is the second friday the 31st and from tonight we are going to take off one hour every day till we arrive into Prince Rupert. It seems a little strange but it is a good system and their is no need for any large time change.
Life on board is lovely and peaceful and i am getting plenty of time to write up diary entries from Russia although now it seems along time ago and it is more difficult to write about what happened as accurately, I am happier writing about the present and what’s on my mind at that time and trying to put down in words what i did in Russia is a chore, i hope you find some of what i am doing interesting. Apart from writing i miss doing exercise and although they do have a very small gym i haven’t used yet, i did want to use the ships indoor swimming pool but it has been drained of water, however the captain said he would fill the pool but the temperature would be about plus 18 and it would feel a little too cold.
What i have been doing is walking around the perimeter of the deck which is 638 meters to do the whole circuit so if i do this twice a day i am walking over klm a day and it helps to stretch the legs.