We are heading south towards the Amundsen Sea! We should be back in the ice sometime tonight (correction, we are on the ice now!). This is exciting because we get so see more penguins and seals, and, best of all, we might get to walk on the ice for a couple of hours if the weather is good. We have scheduled a two hour break on the ice for Monday morning; I wonder how my body will adjust to a non moving surface. But as I wrote, it all depends on the weather, so we might be disappointed.
Heading east on the Palmer, before turning South towards the Amundsen Sea
Todays entry is a short one. I am working on a piece around Alex's talk today and need his input. He is on the night watch, so his comments will come late for today's posting. Meanwhile here is a recently sighted iceberg.
Recently sighted iceberg
We have stopped science work until morning morning when we will get to the continental shelf. We were to be sampling along this transect, but this is the section that got cut after so many days lost to bad weather. This waters have been sampled in the past, but no one has gone to the shelf because ice conditions prevented previous expeditions. We hope to be the first to get data from there.
A ping-pong tournament is schedule to begin tomorrow to keep people busy during the long steam. I will not make it far, but at least I am guaranteed two matches of at least two games each. I do not think the luck that helped me in the assassin game will help me on this one.
An iceberg with a large cave and two cape petrels out of focus flying next to the boat