February 11, 2018

We slept in at least a little bit this morning. The sea has flatten out quite a bit. We had two lectures before lunch:

1. Diving in sub zero waters-very interesting but no thank you for me
2. ICEolation- 4 years ago, our kayak guides, Sophie and Ewan, spent two weeks kayaking for 100 miles along the peninsula. They filmed their journey and it is being made into a film entitled ICEolation. Information about it can be found at ICEolationfilms.com.
And one lecture about the Antarctic climate after lunch.

In the evening, we played balderdash with the crew. They selected five scientific terms and then six of the staff gave definitions and we had to pick the right one. All of the staff have wonderful senses of humor so it was really quite funny.

We are going through the Drake passage so the seas were quite rough and everybody had trouble sleeping. You would roll across the bed with the seas. Also the boat would slap the water which would wake us up. Nobody had a good night sleep.

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