SA Agulhas II

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Day 60 : 06 February 2011


Hello All

We left Akta Bay with restricted visibility hooting and waving to the AWI personnel and the 6 members from the SANAE 50 team who saw the "red taxi" for the last time this year.

We thought we were completely free from ice while running north east to meet the Greenwich meridian at 68°S, but ran into some think ice at 03:00 this morning. The band did not last long and after heading north for a while it all cleared and we could get back to our course line.

We had to slow down again this morning due to heavy snow fall reducing visibility completely, but could luckily speed up again by tea time while we were doing the lifeboat drill.

Have a relaxing Sunday afternoon.

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