You will all be glad to know that I had a good nights sleep last
night so today was a much better day. I also realised that it may be
the sea sickness tablets that were making me sleepy so I decided to
wean myself of them and hope for the best.
After sending the e-mail to post yesterdays blog, I also realised
that I did forget to tell you something exciting from that day...well
it's not that exciting but I will tell you anyway. Me being me, I
went and broke the first thing of the trip; now if this was a normal
sample bottle that would have been fine, but no, I had to go and
break a $350 cell (a small vile) that we use to do the pH analyses -
GREAT! I felt pretty bad, but luckily the boss was absolutely fine
with it and was actually surprised that it had taken a week for a
breakage to occur. As they say, shit happens.
As I said, today has been a pretty good day. Spirits were high
amongst the night crew on the one week anniversary of our departure.
Adam (the guy I do nights with in our lab) and I, decided to learn
some French from an audio book he has whilst we did the pH testing.
This led us to make a few mistakes (not bad mistakes you will be
pleased to know) whilst we did the pH testing as we ended up laughing
so much; looking back, there probably wasn't really a reason it was
so funny - perhaps we have gone a bit crazy.
I seem to have also gotten into a bit of a routine which is great. As
with every other day, I go up to the heli-deck after my shift to take
in the scenery and get some fresh air. Today, I was surprisingly
greeted by glorious sunshine once more; I say surprisingly as it had
been cloudy every other time I had been out. Standard reading in the
sun and photo taking of albatross (I probably have about 50 or so
photos of these now, I am happy with 1) followed.
Current lat: -52.6683
Current lon: 142.3888
Current air temp: 6.1C (this morning, it was about -2C with wind
chill - the first sub zero temps of the voyage)
Current ocean temp: 5.8C - a sudden dip in temps
Sea sickness: none (even without the tablets!)
Wildlife seen: More albatross and some other small black birds (I
will attempt to find out what they are)
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