Today was pleasantly uneventful. We had some pretty violent squalls until late last night, but things settled down around midnight, and today was mostly sunshine and good wind. We've had to go a little farther west than ideal, but we were able to turn slightly more eastward today. That's good, because if we'd had to keep going in the the same direction, we'd have missed Tahiti altogether. That would have been a serious waste of time.
We've laid some equatorial ground rules:
1. For the purposes of celebrating, swimming, photographing, or otherwise marking the occasion, we have agreed to consider any position between Zero Degrees, 59 Minutes North, and Zero Degrees, 59 Minutes South, as "The Equator."
2. For the purposes of saying "We've crossed the equator," we've agreed to consider any latitude south of Zero Degrees, 0 Minutes.
Of course, that technically means that we're allowing ourselves to still be on the equator after we've crossed it. Our trip, our rules. (Our justification for this is that we all want to swim on the equator, but none of us wants to get up in the middle of the night to do so!)
We saw some birds today, but no other living creatures. It was the first day we didn't see a rainbow. Our cabin reached the coolest temperature its seen since we arrived in Honolulu: 87. We're wondering if we should dig out our parkas tonight.
We have an exciting supper planned: boiled hot dogs in tortillas with cream cheese and sriracha, broccoli on the side.
Latitude: 3.1000 N
Longitude: 154.9279 W
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