We have completed 1000 miles of sailing from St. Helena and have 2000 miles left to get to French Guyana. Life on board consists of reading, cooking, navigation, and routine chores. The boat is moving quite a bit (although wave heights are not that large) so even routine chores take a lot more effort than normal. We ran out of Netflix series on the first leg from Cape Town to St. Helena although we still have some dvd movies to watch. Up to a couple of days we checked in daily by radio on the South African Maritime Mobile Net. I am not sure but I do not think we will regain radio contact with South Africa as we move closer to Brazil. Ocean life has been confined to flying fish and a few seabirds. A few days back we picked up a cargo ship on the AIS but never saw it. Mostly sunny with no rain but we expect that to end when we reach the equator and the doldrums. Very hot now with a temperature of 32 C in the boat.