At sea…

We left station last Sunday morning for 4 days at sea during our last fishing trip of the season. Long shifts (12 on/12 off), but lots of fun. We caught all of the fish that we needed with the exception of one species. We’re all in the process of adjusting our experiments accordingly. We returned to station on Wednesday and immediately resumed work. Until yesterday afternoon I had a wicked case of “dock rock” where you still feel like you’re on the boat. Basically, it felt like a nasty hang over for 1.5 days, but everyone is starting to feel better.

Today a baby seal, apparently alone, was hanging out on station. I’ve got some pics I’ll put up some other time.

Back to work. I hope everyone is doing well. One week from today the boat leaves for Chile… Time sure does fly when you’re having fun and working hard.