The moon is out projecting a prefect beam in front of us to follow and the waves are barking at the railing ! The air is warm and the noise of the waves impressive. Some are much higher than the railing and we can see them arrive from afar. Not scared but it's all quite violent and the noise of the woush under us is impressive at the least. Highest waves I have ever seen but feel perfectly safe on Zephyr. One wave while leaving port washed out the whole cockpit and we have been attached since.

The ensign is straight out and the easterly was blowing 32knts when we left and is now averaging 23-25 knts, speeds going from 9-10 to 13.6 ! ... In the past 48 hours we have sailed 380 nm which is 'quite' a lot!!

Now the winds have finally come down a bit and Fiji is about 12 hours away if we keep this windspeed. Exciting.. Fiji.. as a kid, I said I would sail the world.. and now am actually sailing to Fiji...Fijiiii next ahaha wahouuu !

Dinner two nights ago was not so easy to prepare, so while I was on watch, thought I would have some sardines & crackers....some time later it seemed the sardines had come to life again !!! and the food poisoning set in...oh boy, I thought I was done with the seasickness, but having a food poisoning on high wave is def not my idea of having a perfect 'trip'! So mostly have kept up my watches but Micky very generously gave in some hours for me to recover, rest seemed impossible...after so many nice ice-creams in Samoa not a big problem.

Samoa has been a beautiful place to visit, so clean, so green, so beautifully kept, plants everywhere kept immaculately and the grass is kept short, no 'eye' violence, no noises but smiles, where they actually sweep the grass, the dead are buried next to or in front of the houses, they have a meeting house, which is an open space, where all is discussed being problems or religion, or just a place out of the sun or rain to relax, no plastic flying around and wonderful coral reefs to snorkel off too; this island is a true paradise on earth where the people have made it a real Eden.

Now am doing much better and it's just so wonderful outside. The everlasting easterly and the lovely long rolling waves...and have discovered two new birds, one white one and one black one with a white chest and a long tail..otherwise nothing else around but the 360* blue blue south pacific.

Snap from chart-plotter shows Zephyr passing Zephyr Bank