Another quiet day at sea with moderate swell, fresh winds and a few flying fish scattering away from the ship. A white bird with no webbing on his feet stowed away on the ship. He remains unidentified after consulting the bird books in the library.
We had a talk on Suva and Lautoka at 9am and another talk from the astronomer at 10am. He talked about Uranus, Neptune and the dwarf planets. Then he went on to talk about habitable planets in our galaxy. There are widely different estimates of how many of these exist; Carl Sagan once said a million but no one else agreed. New ones are being found all the time and a "Kepler" telescope is about to be launched that will find more.
We had a talk on Suva and Lautoka at 9am and another talk from the astronomer at 10am. He talked about Uranus, Neptune and the dwarf planets. Then he went on to talk about habitable planets in our galaxy. There are widely different estimates of how many of these exist; Carl Sagan once said a million but no one else agreed. New ones are being found all the time and a "Kepler" telescope is about to be launched that will find more.
At 11am we played Scrabble in the Explorer's Lounge and read books the rest of the day.
The 8pm show was shared by Dave the violinist and Heather the singer who we had heard before.
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