Amelia Travers - Day 2 After being rocked into a refreshing sleep by the waves the AM science crew awoke to find that the first planned station of the day had been cancelled due to bad weather. With a spot of time on our hands until the next station we prepared all the scientific equipment and had some spare time to explore the ship and attempt to email home via the somewhat fickle satellite link. In the swell the view from the bridge (where the captain hangs out) was particularly spectacular. With nothing but waves and the occasional albatross it was humbling, although exciting to be adventuring out here. Around lunch time the weather and waves had chilled out enough to start the next station. The AM shift got right into it and ran successful drops and tests in record time. Sadly the weather then picked up and all future research stations have been put on hold. This was probably a reasonable experience of genuine scientific research, no matter how well planned a project something will still go wrong. The tasks left for the day involved significant periods of time looking down a microscope at various plankton forms captured from the water column, however it must be noted that looking down a microscope on a moving ship is not for the faint hearted, nor those whose sea legs may have wandered off.