Wave height:
COG:  dgrs
SOG:  knots
LOG:  knots
Air pressure: 1017 mb
Wind:  m/s
Temperature: 25 dgrs C
Water temp.: 20.4 dgrs C
Weather: Scattered clouds to overcast
Depth:  m
 
Lunch: Ashore
Dinner: Ashore
 
Since the preparations for the journey to Australia have been running smoothly, the port watch had the day off. The starboard watch, on duty for the last 24 hours, mingled with Volvo´s guests in the evening and had some easy maintenance work during the day.
 
Parts of the crew were invited to Volvo´s ice-bar, to remind them of the climate back home. This ice was sawn and taken up from the Torne river in the northernmost part of Sweden last winter, then stored and transported by air to Port Elizabeth. A quick look at a globe however confirms that you are much closer to ice if you go south. But ice sculptors are a choosy lot and the best and most transparent ice is obviously found in Sweden.
 
The influx of visitors has varied during the last few days, but today we had a new weekday record of 1,935 visitors. Among them were the newly elected Mayor of Port Elizabeth and the Minister for Transport of South Africa. Judging from last weekend´s statistics, we should have more than 3,000 visitors tomorrow.