Blue Whales At Home Day 11 (Feb 10, 2016) There was a hive of activity of shipping in the wee hour of the morning, as we positioned ourselves to retrieve another of Rob’s long-term loggers at sunrise in the Perth Canyon. Despite a few blue whale calls, animals in the flesh had remained elusive throughout […]
Liquid Air Day 10 (Feb 09, 2016) It’s wet, I mean on the deck and in the air-all around. We have that surrounding advection fog again! 100% relative humidity, smoke particles in the air, being in the middle of a high pressure system and low wind conditions have given us fog again. I have to […]
Sperm Whales On Monday Day 9 (Feb 08, 2016) Around 2am, 6am and from 8am onwards sperm whale “hammering” dominated the towed array detections. Navy personnel didn’t call sperm whales “carpenter fish” without reason. Whole cities have been built by these whales! Noisy click trains filled the screen-‘These whales have to be nearby’ we all […]
Sperm Whales By Night, Killer Whales By Day Day 8 (Feb 07, 2016) I struggled to know where to look. A breath-taking inky back sky with a WA cache of sparkling celestial diamonds or the sperm whale click trains (13 per 6 seconds) in 5cm lines pouring across the computer screen next to the nav […]
We’ll Take That Win! Day 7 (Feb 06, 2016) It’s calm and with blue sky overhead-the weather is simply fantastic! We can now live the Caribbean Cruise brochure. Did we pack the Pina Colada mixers? During the last few days, the grey skies and grey sea felt as though we dallying in climes expected in […]
Armchair Travel Day 6 (Feb 05, 2016) The latest issue of Australian Geographic (Jan-Feb 2016), as per usual, is bursting with interesting pieces on our beautiful Australian wildlife, unusual photography assignments and a dazzling array of extremely successful AG-funded expeditions. Given a moment or two in the evening, I have easily curled up in an […]
Day 5 (Feb 04, 2016) ‘Ceduna Terrace, if you please, this sounds a most perfect place to spend a Thursday…’ and so it was. Heading west the wind and swell have abated but heavy cumulonimbus cloud, remnants from Ex-Tropical Cyclone Stan covered 7/8 of the sky. The first sonobuoy was deployed at 0700 and again […]
Day 4 (Feb 03, 2016) With the sky clearing, and the correct part carefully replaced in one of our gensets… we are off and racing… and across the GAB (Great Australian Bight) we headed after raising the anchor at 0657. Yahoo, we are homeward bound! We travelled north out of Proper Bay, around Cape Colby […]
Day 3 (Feb 02, 2016) A rainy day greeted us as we rubbed the sleep from our eyes this morning. Indeed, we were feeling lucky about several things, at least we weren’t crossing the GAB with such a system as ex-tropical cyclone Stan providing excessive rain and a little bit of wind and at least […]
Day 2 (Feb 01, 2016) We continued to test equipment today while at anchor not far from the slipway, reticent to travel until everything was fully sorted. With the evening TV news we learned the path of ex-Tropical Cyclone Stan, now downgraded to a rain-bearing depression, which is crossing the country in a SE track, […]
