alright, back out to sea! Headed out today after refueling, at one point toward the end of refueling I heard that we had taken on 62,000 L (~15,000 gallons) of fuel, to which somebody scoffed: "yeah, thats nothing!". I looked up later online, and sure enough, the capacity is 483,000L (~120,000 gallons)! and you thought you spent a lot on gas! Even crazier, is the largest Canadian ice breaker, the Louis S. St-Laurent, has a capacity of 4.8 million L (~1.2 million gallons!), my labmate Jeff was on this ship in the Arctic last year, it can be self sustaining for up to 6 months! (that is a lot of fuel, food, etc)!

There were gale warnings headed through the Juan de Fuca Strait, headed out from the protected waters of the Georgia Strait behind Vancouver Island going out to the "open" Pacific, so far ship is not moving too much, but we'll see.....

It was pretty neat earlier, heading down into the Juan de Fuca we had Victoria on one side, and Port Angeles on the other, so we could look one way to the US and the other way to Canada.

We have a great bunch of people here on the ship, really looking forward to the next couple of weeks!