In Puntarenas

After three days of traveling finally arrived in Punta Arenas without any trouble (if somewhat tired and travel weary) on Monday, met up with a work weary Stian, good to see him again. The last few days have been spent loading and unloading, unpacking boxes and repacking in shelves and cupboards. Chasing chemicals and equipment yet to arrive, running around and a lot of standing around today waiting for other people to move their stuff so you can get to yours.

No one is in so much of a hurry anymore either, which seems to lead to more waiting around - we’re now delayed headed out until Friday evening at the earliest it sounds like – some of the crucial equipment has yet to arrive and is (hopefully) at the moment on a truck coming down from Santiago – a long drive that involves going into Argentina and back into Chile, as there is no road through the Patagonian fjords. Not that I am really complaining (except that I would really like this cruise to start!), as over half of my chemicals have also not arrived, so it gives an extra few days for them to get here – as those are not critical enough to hold the ship up for (well, not critical enough to the chief scientists – for me, they are pretty critical, one whole slab of my work would be cut out of this cruise without them)........so lets all pray to American Airlines to let them on the flight tonight......

Today we did move out of the hotels and onto the ship, so at least we don’t have far to go to go to work, so that makes a good extra hour of a lie-in in the morning!

Hope you all are well out there, I’ll try and make another post on here with photos before I head out.
The Lawrence M. Gould at the dock.


The Goulds butt....

A cruise ship the Marco Polo was pulled up opposite us today too, so we looked like a midget for the day.....



And this will eventually be where I will be set up in the lab.....or maybe.....they keep changing their minds as to where they really want me.......doesn't make it easy to unpack!