Back Across the Drake

Now that I'm back across the Drake and settled back into my job I can start this blog back up again. We had one rough evening on the Drake but the rest of the passage was fairly smooth sailing. Mostly just a lot of reading, napping and watching movies for four days. It was cloudy through the Neumayer Channel so nothing too spectacular to see on the way down this year. I did help with making temperature profile measurements and water samples on the way as well.


The winter electrician made this time lapse of our ship coming into the Palmer pier. The Lawrance M. Gould isn't a full ice breaking vessel but it can cut through thinner ice with her bow.