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Macca turned on a bit of a mystery weather day for us today – you couldn't be quite sure what was coming next. We arrived in poor visibility and windspeeds too high to move expeditioners between ship and shore. The winds soon dropped to 20 knots and the visibility cleared for us to move three watercraft operators to shore and return 2 expeditioners to the vessel on conclusion of their work ashore. We then soon lost visibility and winds became variable at the vessel zig-zagging our graph from 16 to 32 knot at times with varying visibility and a nice roll up at the vessel for a while. These winds were higher at the ship than for our land dwelling neighbours on the island which is not unusual but definitely frustrating when we would have liked to move more people. We instead sat at anchor for the day enjoying the relative shelter in Buckles Bay before returning to our nightly laps of the east coast. As we headed our earlier than usual those onboard were treated to the beautiful scenery of the east coast including the penguin colonies at Sandy Bay and Green Gorge that are usually shrouded in darkness by the time we pass them after operations.
REGARDS: Nicki and Chris
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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.