Right now, I'm getting a touch of déjà vu - there's been a few times on this trip where I've mentioned how I'm sitting at my desk, listening to the wind howl around the bridge, with the ship rolling in the swell. This time, however, instead of rolling, we're pitching. This means that instead of rolling from side to side, the bow and stern of the Esperanza are going up and down - like a see-saw... yee haw!

This crazy motion is because we're head-on into the wind, heading northwest towards Sydney. We're planning to reach Australia before the weekend - and we're all looking forward to it. We've been (by my vague calculation) 39 days at sea now - we left Auckland on January 26th, and everyone is pretty tired, but in decent humour.

But enough moaning about the weather! Here's a little something to read about: Whaler's Myths - and the Reality »

...and have you seen the high jinx on the Webcam Esperanza flickr group?

- Dave