A good start in the morning with a very small breakfast,
then off to Pilates, Yoga and Zumba, two hours later, emerging from our fitness
studio, the old converted bar. Next action item after a few quick emails –
Lunch.
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| Trawl Deck |
After lunch some light science reading and finally getting on the credit
card statement and reconciliation form. All these small little jobs, one does
in the office, the only thing is that I don’t have all the items in front of me
and can’t yet confirm the final results. In the later afternoon I went up to
the bridge, filling out the whale sighting forms and digging through the
wildlife books to figure out what whale I captured in the first of my two whale
encounters.
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| The Humpback |
The second was definitively a breaching Humpback, the first one I
only have the back fin before the dive.
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| Who Knows This Guy? |
It not necessarily looks like a
Humpback, may be like a Finwhale, could also be a Blue or Mincky. After reading
and looking at pictures I decided to leave it for the moment, in the hope that
I can submit the pictures online and the people from the Southern Ocean
Research Partnership, may be better in identifying the sighting.
http://www.marinemammalsgov.au/sorp/sightings.
As I was wondering around the ship I took the opportunity to take some pictures
of all the various rooms and signs around the ship. My favorite “No Dumping of
Garbage in the Sea”.
After another great dinner, I took my water colors up to
the bridge painting a few pictures, after a game of darts which turned into a
car racing wii game, I took my pastels up to the bridge and captured the
breaking free of the ice. Well we made it from one lead into the other. Slow
progress, very slow progress.
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| Darkness over the Ice |
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| Crack in the ice |
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