{"id":944,"date":"2009-12-08T19:32:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T03:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2009-12-08T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T03:32:15","slug":"picking-up-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/picking-up-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking up rocks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hutatlagoon-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"hutatlagoon\" title=\"hutatlagoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-947 colorbox-944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hutatlagoon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hutatlagoon.JPG 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nLagoon Hut<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/elephantseals-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"elephantseals\" title=\"elephantseals\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-946 colorbox-944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/elephantseals-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/elephantseals.JPG 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nElephant Seals at Lagoon<\/p>\n<p>On monday I went for my fourth dive in Antarctica helping Mel out with a little project. There were quite a large amount of icebergs in south cove as it has been blowing a southerly for a few days. We went down to 12m or so and were down for 40 minutes. My fingers were numb after 5 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>While Mel was measuring the bodies of brittle stars on the grid I was bagging up 50 or so limpets for Mel to shuck and use for feeding the urchins in the aquarium at the bonner lab. I was also bagging up rocks with algae for the limpets already in the aquarium to graze on. <\/p>\n<p>We also had a field party going out to Lagoon to get soil samples for a project. So all in all a busy day. I had taken a recreational trip out to Lagoon on Sunday as I was on Marine SAR duty this weekend. It means I can&#8217;t go beyond the hanger as I need to be able to launch the boat within 20 minutes. However, if I am already on the water it is OK.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lagoon-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"lagoon\" title=\"lagoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-945 colorbox-944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lagoon-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lagoon.JPG 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/riblagoon-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"riblagoon\" title=\"riblagoon\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-948 colorbox-944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/riblagoon-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/riblagoon.JPG 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><br \/>\nLanding point at Lagoon<\/p>\n<p>After the trip to Lagoon we waited for the DASH 7 to land bringing in some new scientists for 10 days. It was a beautiful day so it wasn&#8217;t a bother waiting. As we were tied up on the wharf I mentioned to my crew that something was just under the surface of the water. A few seconds later a penguin jumped into the boat! It scared the crew and had a waddle around &#8211; there was enough time for me to get a quick video! I told Henry on the phone and he said silly aunty ashley &#8211; obviously he didn&#8217;t believe me. <\/p>\n<p>We were up at the memorial late on Monday night after the great science talk about aerial photography and we hung out for a long time with a penguin which climbed about 250 yards up to join us following our penguin calls. The penguin stopped about 1.5 meters away from us and proceeded to pick up rocks and talk to us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagoon Hut Elephant Seals at Lagoon On monday I went for my fourth dive in Antarctica helping Mel out with a little project. There were quite a large amount of icebergs in south cove as it has been blowing a southerly for a few days. We went down to 12m or so and were down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}