First Day Off...Sort Of

Nathalie is letting us take a day off....sort of.  We got to sleep in, so I actually woke up with a little bit of sun outside.  It's pretty overcast as always, but off in the distance you can see some sun behind the mountains.  We were supposed to go out on the zodiacs today to explore the surrounding islands, but unfortunately there's a lot of brash ice outside so it's unknown if we'll be going out there.  Right now Nathalie is at the gym on station and Urjeet is setting up the environmental room.  I'm typing this, but soon I'll be yet again studying.

View from my bed

We're pretty set up for the arrival of our fish on Thursday.  The tanks are cleaned and filled with water, they're almost done with 48 hours of water cycling, and the environmental room is scrubbed.  All that is left is to set up the incubators for our embryos.  Right now is the peak of C. aceratus' mating season, from what I understand, so we should be able to get them to breed.  Our rock cod N. coriiceps won't be ready until mid-May/June.

In other news, your voice can really carry around here.  Outside my window and down by the pier are a couple of divers in their diving equipment.  I can hear their conversation from my room because it's so quiet around here.  It's eery.  There aren't any machines or trucks going since it's the staff's day off.  All you can hear is the wind and the divers outside.