The scenery is high sea, so water and waves, and the occasional rainbow. Temperature hasn't dropped noticeably yet, and luckily, there is a great cook on board (French ship, what else…)
Since there is no MD on board for this crossing over, I've also been appointed ship surgeon (as long as everybody keeps sleeping the drugs off rather than trying to part from his/her stomach, it's quite an easy job. So, I've taken quarters in the "hospital", being more a gentrified sick bay.
Passengers on the Astrolabe are mainly French and Italian scientists rejoining different bases around Dumont d'Urville. I'm sending this blog through the satellite link we have: no internet, but the possibility to send and receive mail messages, as long as the size remains manageable. Let's check if this works...
Nathalie.
