0330hrs 30 Sep 2005 UTC 20’36”S 026’17”W Ref 396
We passed east of Trindade a couple of hours ago at 2624 W. Another black, moonless, porridgey sort of night. The darkness has texture and substance, the wind comes and goes but we’re still moving east. We are in the area marked in all the literature with the word ‘Variables’ and they have a point.