10^th June 2015

During the last couple of days the cyclone we were trying to avoid decided to chase us, once again we had to change course as the wind increased substantially, huge seas started to flog us around and the ship’s became quite wild.

Fortunately we now have a following sea and conditions have in improved somewhat. According to the captain we are now three hours behind schedule for our arrival in Dubai where three hundred passengers get off and three hundred plus get on. As I write this, the sky is getting lighter and it hasn’t rained for several hours. We are getting closer to the Persian Gulf and as things settle down the seas are gradually flattening off. We are currently travelling at 20.9 knots, temperature is 31C, with a relative humidity of 75%. Apparently the barometer trend is steady and as such I would think we are not out of the woods yet but wave heights are down to 3.5 mtres. Our position would roughly be in line with Muscat (Oman) one our port side and the boarder of Pakistan and Iran on the other, not that we can see anything as we are many kilometres from the coast. 

Update 

Getting WiFi access has been a nightmare. We have spent a day in Dubai very interesting very hot I will write about it later as far as photos are concerned if I don't eventually have some success in uploading them I will bombard you with heaps when we get back.

Next stop Muscat