As we write we have to keep getting up to watch the antics of the large numbers of turtles swimming close to the ship. They are close to the surface and appear to be basking in the hot sun with one flipper (?) sticking up out of the water as if they are waving to us. they are not very big, probably 50cm or so across. Just like the dolphins, impossible to photograph. Probably should be on Deck 7 closer to the sea. A keen photographer close to us has a marvellous s...

The journey from San Francisco down the California coast was a whole lot more comfortable than our last sortie in the Pacific Ocean - much calmer seas and temperatures increasing up to 22c. Again the dolphins - dozens of them have been entertaining us, usually mid morning and early evening - leaping high out of the ocean. But without a rinky dink camera and fancy lens they are almost impossible to photograph, so you will just have to take our word for it! Same g...