60 Degrees South

We entered Antarctic Treaty waters at ~2:30pm Eastern Australia Summer Time today. We should reach the pack ice tomorrow, and our first port of call - the French base at Dumont D'Urville - on Tuesday. From there, we expect to travel around the coast to Commonwealth Bay, where we will be offloaded with all the gear for our work at Cape Denison.

The sea and weather have been very kind to us so far, making for a relaxing journey. There's still some possibility of 'interesting' weather ahead.

The email side of things is working well. It involves some specialised software on one of the laptops and using an Iridium Satellite phone as a modem. The photo shows Peter McCabe and Tony Stewart doing one of the email schedules, on the heli deck of L'Astrolabe.