Sea day and Happy Feet – 27 March

Day at sea today. Quite rocky and rolling overnight. Felt a bit average.

Woke up too early. The sun was up and shining bright. It is still two hours till breaky. So watched some TV and slept a bit.

Forced in some breaky and managed to download my 3000 pics from yesterday and start sorting through.

Mid morning we had a presentation from Howard and Jonathan titled “The Making of Happy Feet” both men had worked with George Miller on the movie, pending time in Antarctica scoping and data scanning sites etc. The movie was seven years in the making and cost $100 million.

We had an interesting talk from David from Dunedin talking about his time in Antarctica at NZ and US stations as a carpenter and firefighter, titled Fire and Ice.

Later in the day a game with Russell – How big is it? A fun game in teams guessing the size of various animals and things and estimating the length on a rope.

Then it was quickly time for daily…

RECAP/PRECAP.

Steve won the photo competition., with his penguin jumping across a little rock crevice.

A lot of sitting around today. I did do a bird survey. For 30 minutes before lunch passengers are invited to stand up the front and the E Team record any birds we see in the that half hour. It’s part of the Citizen Science program Aurora Expeditions run.

Stephi talked about rocks and the changes at Gold Harbour and proposed a Haiku competition- 5syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables

Vicky spoke about the South Georgia Pipit. The only songbird. Only found in Sth. Georgia.

Howard.

We have moved quite a way north. Left Sth Georgia having bad weather and gone 300nm out of our way.

It will change at 11.00-12.00 tonight. We will turn West into the swell – pitching into the waves. For about 12 hours. 5-6m swells. Will be slowing down. By midday smooth seas on the way to the Falklands.

Tonight we also got the opportunity to watch Happy Feet. A fun end to the day.