We're on a coring tour of French Polynesia at the moment, after finally making our way north out of the wild blue yonder and back into the territorial waters of French Polynesia. The weather is great - not too hot and not too cold. I'm spending the days burning cruise ...

Found a website that lets you put together your very own world travel penis size-o-meter. Create your own visited country map And because I'm in a map posting mood, check out our track plot, complete with typhoon dodging curves:

We're out of the 40s and solidly making progress north. The air temp is back to shorts and tshirt weather. The chief mate found a box full of 2 year old expired safety flares and other pyrotechnics that he needed to dispose of. So today we had an audience participation session ...

1620 1623 Notice posted in the main lab. 1613 We sent out a requistion for some better weather. This is what the chief engineer came up with. 1618

Due to some late night operations, I was still a little groggy this afternoon when I was helping myself to second breakfast in the galley. Me: Man, I was up until about 4:30AM. I'm still kinda out of it. Me: Tommy doesn't know what day it is. Paul (confused): Who? Me: Exactly. ...

We began our slow journey northward last night and continue to steam northeast to our next station. It was pretty interesting to watch the meteorological data - about the time we crossed from 50S to 49S the barometric pressure jumped up while the wind speed and temperature dropped. Out of ...

Life goes on here on the Melville. Due to the bad weather we have had to scrap a couple of stations that were selected as optional at the beginning of this cruise. Other than that, nothing really to report other than that R/V Maurice Ewing, run by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, ...

1555 1562 "The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea."James Joyce - Ulysses Off in the exciting realm of the southern ocean. The weather has been alternating between decent and crappy, with a special emphasis on the crappy. I've been in worse though. (I know I'm going to regret saying that.) Data collection has been curtailed ...

Another update from the middle of nowhere. We're transiting to 50 south, and so far no sign of that nasty weather they keep promising. It's definitely colder out, but we still have sunshine. Another birthday tonight, so we had free beer again. Other than that, it's been very quiet during ...

Sat time came sooner than I thought. We've been on station all day and are now heading south on a slightly different course, so the mast is no longer shadowing the satellite dish as much. This means that I am finally able to post my pictures from Tahiti and Rangiroa. 1372 A ...