Day 33 . Boxing day.
Mike serving xmas dinner
After a good meal and some R&R its back to work, weaving our way south toward the fishing grounds.
We all take turns at lookout searching for good leads that will take us south.
Me searching for leads through the ice
We are now 80nm south of the ice edge with around 250nm to go before we exit the ice bridge and enter the Ross Sea.
When we finally get there we could have traveled over 600miles weaving back and forth, in and out to find the safest track.
Today we have a long low swell from the NW, this is good news for us. A big swell (next to the warm water currents that thaw the Ross Sea from the inside out) is probably the next strongest force that breaks the sea ice up and speeds the thawing process. While we stopped for dinner 3 leads opened up that weren’t there before. We’re heading down one of them now.
Rgds: John B.
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