Garden ahoy

I've decided this is now the ahoy and aarrrggg blog. Enough of this nonsense. Check out the garden, it looks great and the lettuce and peas are yummy. The raspberries are going nuts and the blackberries will follow in a few weeks.

Land ahoy

We're back in sight of land. Here's the west coast of the island.
We'll be pulling into dock sometime tomorrow morning

Trooper and filtering

With only fear and good judgement

Holding us back

We sailed out on the Northern Sea

With a boat load of crazy people



I have no idea what that song means. It goes on to talk about a sardine boat and a shotgun-neither are very Canadian subjects. But I have to say that it's one of my favorite Trooper songs and the beginning fits this trip really well.



Today was better than the last 2 (or has it been 3 or 4??) days. The first 2 stations we worked for 22.5 and 22 hours respectively with 12 hours off to sleep in between. Today has been much better with the other post doc not taking any samples at all and actually being able to help me with my sampling. I'm hoping to be done filtering by morning which will make today only an 18 hour day. We're bringing a 3rd person on the Aug cruise because I refuse to do this again. I know I said the same thing after the Feb cruise and I did seriously trim the sampling scheme but not enough for it to be a 2 person job. hence another person, to guarantee 8 hours off each day or I'm finding a union rep and doing what ever it is you do with a union rep.





The first mate shouted from the crow's nest

I think I might see land out there

But nobody moved

From where they were laying

Cause nobody really cared

steaming

We're currently somewhere just east of p14-if you look at the posts from January Thairo posted a link to a site that tracks my boat-if you're really that interested. We (the other post doc and I) have been filtering pretty much non-stop since sometime sunday. Which isn't quite as much fun as it sounds.

Today I saw a black footed albatross and a pod? of Dals porpoises. and some kind of crazy invertebrate was growing on the end of the ziptie that's holding a tube in place in the overflow bucket in the sink. alright by the end of that I was just trying to see how many prepositional phrases I could have in one sentence. I think we'll lose internet sometime late tomorrow or early the next day so I may not post again till we're on our way home

ok found the link for tracking the boat
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=CG2958

After

Ok it may look like it's messier in the after picture but it was solid
boxes about 5 feet high

Before

Finally set up

We're off to the middle of the ocean. So far I haven't felt sick.
We'll see how long that lasts. The waves here in the straight aren't
big but they did make me a little queasy in Feb

Here is a before picture-just after unloading the van AND pickup. And
another showing how it looks tonight.

Last garden update for a few weeks

I'm currently waiting to board the ferry that will take us to the ship, so won't be seeing the garden for a few weeks. Before thairo left for the field earlier this week, we took out the little cold frames and put in the supports for the tomatoes and edemame.

Retreat? Never

The institute that is funding my postdoc has a retreat every year. This year it was north of town in a cute little resort. It was really nice although this picture doesn't really capture the hum of the mosquito.
I came back to town earlier today to get the last minute things done for the cruise. We were supposed to load the boat Sat. And sail Sunday but now are trying to sail by noon Sat. I think we're nearly ready but loosing a day does cause a bit more stress. I'll try to get a few pics up while were at dock.