We departed Punta Arenas 1400 local time yesterday (Wed 1 Aug). The
Palmer is an impressive ship as I think I already mentioned. The
weather has been beautiful so far. When we pass through the Strait of
Le Maire and into The Drake Passage it will become bumpier. From what
I've seen of the forecasts, it doesn't look like anything too bad,
though. We spent two days in port setting up our lab space and
securing equipment. Now we have a couple of days of downtime as we
transit to The South Shetland Islands where we'll start sampling. I
am once again working with the zooplankton team. Due to sea ice, we
will not make it as far south as last year's summer cruise.
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