We were at sea all day today. The seas were quite rough in the morning but calmed as the day progressed. We are slightly off course in order to have a more stable ride. Our ship has stablizers which help neutralize the side to side motion but do nothing for the front to back motion. I feel much better today than I did last night but the motion of the ship made me very tired and I kept taking naps all day.
It was a day of lectures. In the morning, we had a talk on penguins and another one on glaciers. In the afternoon the lecture was about women in Antarctica.
Meanwhile it feels like we are eating continuously and burning very few calories. The decks go all the way around the ship on deck 4 (our cabin is on deck 3). I think it’s something like 13 times around make a mile. I haven’t been out walking because it’s quite windy and often raining a little.
The days get longer as we go further south. Today the sun rose at 4:45 am and set at 9:38 pm. We have strong black out curtain in our room to sleep. We also had to keep all the shades closed in S. Georgia to avoid bird strikes. There are some species who are attracted to the light. They will fly towards the lights on the ship and will die by slamming into the side of the ship.
In the evening there was a game. Each of the expedition team provide an interesting experience they had had and we had to match the experience with the team member. For instance one was “l once didn’t bath for 7 weeks.” It was fun.
Surprisingly I was tired after all my sleeping and went to bed after the game. We are headed west so we turned the clocks back an hour tonight.