Ahoy! South Georgia
Welcome back! It's been a while. I bring you this blog from the South Atlantic, soon to be the Southern Ocean, as I am being violently rolled around on the South Georgia Fisheries Patrol Vessel, MV Pharos. MV Pharos Photo credit: Louis Day I was asked before I accepted the temporary position of a Marine Biologist at King Edward Point Research Station, South Georgia, if I get seasick- to which I confidently replied 'no'. However, this is a different story. The Pharos is a flat bottomed boat, one that rolls under any circumstance, flat or calm. The crew tell me she was made in Scotland with the specific purpose of working inshore, getting 'beached', loaded with cargo and then would float out to sea when the tide was high again. Something she was absolutely not made for was seagoing expeditions across the rolling South Atlantic and Southern Ocean northernmost boundary! I do not like spending more time than necessary vertical so this is a new challenge to me. However,