Saturday 14 May NZ to Fiji day 2

Day 2 started with a beautiful sunrise. The winds eased, the seas calmed and I felt my normal self return. This is the worst I've been since sailing from Cartegna to San Blas a year and a half ago. Towards lunchtime and the winds have dropped so we are motor sailing NNE in light winds from the NW. The forecast predicts a front will pass over us tomorrow evening bringing higher winds speeds and gusts in the squalls.
However today normality reigned. We chatted, read, slept and ate a fine roast beef baguette which I'd prepared earlier. In fact the freezer has enough pre-prepared meals for most of the anticipated days we are at sea and 4 days of lunches. David considered putting out the fishing lines this morning. The two questions were does he want to clean a fish and do I want to cook one? Answers not really and no. The lines were not deployed today. Perhaps when we've worked at making some space in the freezer.
There's no one out here except us and a beautiful albatross gliding circles around the boat. So beautiful, she has to be a she. Her gliding is effortless, skimming millimetres above the water without dipping a wing.
Most uplifting news is the temperature – we're up to 22c. I may be casting a clout 'ere May be out.

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