"We had a time zone change last night, as we're moving westward, so an "extra" hour of sleep. That got sunrise back to a more reasonable time of 6:45. It had been 7:45, so it was totally dark when I had been getting up and going down to breakfast at 7:00.
"A leisurely Sunday of ocean viewing and chapter editing. It started out fairly sunny, and the students thought this was going to be the first day for afternoon sunbathing. But then it clouded up and got cooler. We've moved back in closer to shore and picked up our booby escort. We've had both masked boobies and brown boobies today. A group of 4 or 5 masked boobies seemed to be using the ship's stack as a race course, as they kept zipping around it very fast. The watch officer on the bridge told me he had seen a couple of whales breaching earlier, but I never seem to be outside when the good things happen.
"Temperatures are pleasant now - high 60s - but we should start moving into tropical waters and really warming up on about Tuesday. At our present speed we'll cross the equator on Wednesday and arrive into Golfito, Costa Rica Friday night or Saturday morning. This is just a "clearance stop," without getting off, then we'll head back out to Cocos Island for next Sunday before returning for our "real" Costa Rica visit Tuesday through Thursday of next week.
"I'm going to go knock off a few more pages before dinner."
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