March 30th 2004:

Email from the Ship: Tuesday March 30 6am position 01N 133E traveling 16 knots.

Last evening we had our before dinner drinks on the deck so we could watch the sunset and celebrate crossing the equator again. We saw a huge group of dolphins flipping around in the ocean doing their entertaining for us.

Also I finally made a trip to the engine room. I had this picture in my mind that it would be a loud, fiercely hot,dark dungeon, the way everyone had been commenting about it. Much to my surprise it was a well lit room full of huge machinery, very clean, and quite hot and loud. There was a room with all the monitors which was airconditioned and the crew that works with engines need to take a break every so often to cool down.I took pictures to send to my website.

I think in about 4 days we will be in Borneo Malaysia. Until then we are sitting on deck relaxing, reading, playing scrabble and Helen and I go to the pool for exercise.