Well, we’ve finally made it across the Bering Sea and have traveled 2900 nautical miles from Seattle. We sailed to approximately latitude 65 degrees north to avoid a large weather system. This is the most northward the two of us have ever been. It wasn’t that exciting though as ocean is ocean. We’ve got some blue sky today and the severe rolling and pitching of the last few days have subsided. I’ve been going to lectures on the history of Russia and taking camera classes. Jeff had been doing a lot of reading, playing trivia every day, and spending time in the Jacuzzi even though the outside temperature has been in the high 40’s.
Yesterday, we crossed the International Date Line and so we lost a day. We went from being four hours behind the west coast to twenty hours ahead. Today, we went back another hour so now we are nineteen hours ahead. Gaining all this time makes it easy to wake up each day but it does still wear on you.
We just passed by the western side of Komandorskiye Island which is about 54 degrees north, 162 degrees east. We are now headed south for the first time hugging the coastline of the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. The coastline is too fogged in to see land but tomorrow we will arrive in our first port of call, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia.
Good night!
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