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The day continued to be a calm and cloudy one yesterday and the wildlife displays by birds and cetaceans continued to follow us along our way. We have started preparing for Casey now with discussions with the Station Leader and his team and continued planning on the ship. We will deliver some cargo to Casey while some on the ship will go ashore to start their winter season or work on various short projects before loading Hobart bound cargo and people for our voyage homewards. Our forecaster on the ship, Mal, and the forecasters at Casey continue to deliver good news in the form of the weather prognosis so we hope it holds for us to complete our work. We also hope to get the ship right in to Casey station and anchored a mile or so offshore. Guided by the satellite ice images we receive via Denmark and England we think that the way will be clear enough for us to reach the station. Thus far on the voyage this satellite imagery, combined with the accurate weather forecasts, has been invaluable and undoubtedly saved us many days that would have been spent trying to find our way through and around the ice and weather that surrounds the continent. One can only imagine how difficult it must have been for early Southern Ocean explorers and voyagers to find their way through the often labyrinthine ice pack and changing weather without the assistance that technology now gives us. Today will be another day of shipboard work, punctuated by nature's distractions, as we close on Casey. Yours Aye Robb and Simon
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A map showing Australia and Antarctica. The map shows the journey of one voyage that has occured in the season, with each route highlighted in a distinct colour.