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There are no signposts in the sea.” – Vita Sackville-West If there were signposts in the sea they would to record the roughest points so the ''I've known it worse'' competion could be mapped 🤣🤣. We are not really interested in who won but its a very (tedious)serious game of one upmanship out on the Atlantic ocean. It was a moderately rough crossing...  We did, however get a gloriously warm clear night for the first star gazing session up on deck 11. The crowd gathered and when the ships lights were finally turned off it revealed an excellent view of the vast night sky. Its quite amazing the difference when the lights go off and everyone gets dark adapted. I see people being really surprised at the extent of the difference.  Sadly they wont turn the bar lights off which shine out onto the deck (but later in the week they did turn them down ) and of course they always have the chiminey light on...  Dr Fred did his stuff - shone ...