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DAY 2 (52 07S & 53 53W) Beaufort 4, seas moderate, air temp 47F

Another lovely sea day - fair skies, calm seas, and enough going on to keep us busy.

What more could we ask? Started the day as usual with Gabor doing stretches, but

actually, we had been awake since 5:15 AM - long before our 8 AM rendezvous with

Gabor. Guess we are getting to the end of the voyage because we seemed to do more

laughing and joking than exercising. But it’s still a good way to start the day, on deck

with plenty of fresh sea air and sunshine and getting those sinews and joints

limbered up for the rest of the day.

After breakfast, we did some more reading and photographic work as well as figuring

out what we would do for MJ’s gift sketchbook to thank her for the wonderful classes

she has been giving us. At 11 AM, we joined everybody in the Cosmos Lecture Hall for

Alan’s talk on “Patterns and Penguins” in which he described similarities and

differences in beak morphology together with food preferences as well as plumage

variations among the various species of penguin we will have seen on this trip.

Following lunch, Kay went to the sketch class at 2 while Lois typed on Craig’s

computer, copy typing from our computer, the Shackleton hike day. It took much

longer than it should have because of Lois’ basic incompetence regarding computers.

As a matter of fact, for some completely inexplicable & irremediable reason, the last

three paragraphs of her entry ended up coming out in red letters with complete

underlining. She could not figure out how to stop it or erase it. However, she did

finish the report and handed the whole thing, computer and all, back to Craig with

some sense of satisfaction.

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