internet is available only sporadically and is slow, so here are some posts from the last couple of days

08Aug2010

Swaying of the ship is like being rocked to sleep…..which I will probably be doing soon, as we have a station at 4:30 tomorrow morning. Ship life here seems great, everyone is very welcoming and everyone seems to just go about doing their job and then, more importantly, you actually see people NOT working (ie. people have regular schedules and have time off!).

Had a great day travelling across the island and spending the evening in Ucluelet with Chris and Kevin from Uvic, they are down a man and so have been helping them out some today with their microprofiler (looks like an underwater palmtree!, not sure if I will be able to upload pics, may have to wait for land). Will start our sampling tomorrow. Elena, Christina, and Ian did quite a transformation on our trace metal sampling container, plastic sheeting makes it look like a real clean lab!

Chicken Kiev lunch and steak dinner, not bad! and somehow three (?!?!?) deserts, mocha pie, lemon bar, and baked apple with butterscotch vanilla ice cream (and ahhh, oh yeah, like three cookies….)

Looking forward to a good sleep and an early morning!