Just when I thought I’d never feel sea-sick again, we started moving East, into the swell and back towards Peru/Chile. The acupressure bracelets are back on and I just stuck a piece of ginger gum in my mouth. I’ll go down for some ginger cookies in a moment. So the boat is now rocking front to back and side to side instead of just side to side. Blaaaahhh…. I do wish there was more pop hanging out in the fridge. We also have a bit of a balance issue that they are trying to fix. So that is certainly not helping the situation.
We had a cast for samples at 5:30AM this morning. When we’re on a station, we often sample at all hours of the night. Usually there is a pretty good distribution of early mornings/late nights, but some people are stuck with bad sampling times and long filtering sessions following the return of the bottles. I returned to my room around 7:30 and plopped down for a nap. I forgot we had a safety drill today and was woken at 10AM to an alarm and intercom message. Oops! But there were about 5 others who arrived to the main lab with groggy expressions.
I watched the retrieval of the shallow traps from this station in the early afternoon. It was nice to explore the upper decks of the boat and catch some sun. I then filtered samples and prepped some slides for someone at USC. I wish I could look at the slides here and see the little critters!
Today was Mardi Gras, so there was some creole-inspired cuisine tonight for dinner.
We booked a tour of Lauca National Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauca_National_Park) – so excited! I hope we see lots of llamas and other camelids!! :-D And volcanoes! I’m getting pretty pumped for touring northern Chile and southern Peru!
Hope you are having a great day wherever you are in the USA!
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