I dream sometimes that I am an albatross, surveying the world’s largest ocean from the air. Albatross sighted this trip: southern royal albatross, wandering albatross, white-capped albatross, white-capped mollymawk, black-browed mollymawk, grey-headed mollymawk, light-mantled albatross and sooty albatross. These most admirable, most noble of birds can live for up to fifty years, spending the majority of this time at sea. They sail with grace through the most treacherous turbulence life can deal them, and when they return home it is to their lifelong partners.