Its another hot one on the Banda Sea in Indonesia. Not quite as hot as yesterday. Today its only 94 in the cabin and 98 outside. There is no wind, and its still humid, of course, since we are still pretty damn near the equator.

We've been keeping cool by stopping the boat for an hour each afternoon to swim. We haven't done this much in the past as its a bit eerie to swim around the boat in the middle of nowhere with no land in sight. The water is perfectly beautiful, deep deep blue, clear, very warm, and the thermometer reads 89.7 today. Fortunately that is cooler that the 98 degree air.

No squid attacks today...... that we know of..... though they do seem to be lurking. While we are in anywhere from a couple thousand to fifteen thousand feet of water, our depth guage sometimes reads somehwere between 20 and 40 feet for a few minutes at a time....