A whole month since we left Marina del Rey, and ten days out of Honolulu. We are eating up the miles; averaging 180nm a day, and cruising along nicely now at 8.3kts towards Penrhyn Island (319nm to go!) Should be there early Friday to enjoy a couple of days snorkelling, meeting the locals, and staggering around on our sea legs. Saw some enormous finned fish today (Marlin perhaps, with the great tail fin extending several feet out of the water), and disturbed a sea monster (to judge by the resultant freak wave that crashed over the bow, and half flooded below decks). Either the heat, or the broken sleep, but we've all been having weird dreams out here. Oh, for a dream-interpreter! How amazing the early explorers must have been to do what today we are doing in comfort, with all the modern navigation equipment, and with speed. One could pass within ten miles of land and never know it was there in these waters. We raise a glass to them.