Second Dispatch from Keith Rittmaster's NOAA Marine Mammal Assessment Cruise

If you look carefully (or enlarge the picture by double clicking on it) you can see where the ship made extra loops. Makes me wonder what they sighted there. The information in the white 'observation box' is really interesting, be sure to look at it.

Last dispatch we saw the moon and here the sun - amazing definition. I am surprised there was a heron that far off shore. And the flying fish, for me, are like seeing a critical time in an evolutionary process from fish to bird, or from water to air breather. (That is my musing, not a scientific statement)

Keith says he's not very good at juggling and mainly just chases around tennis balls, but as he picks them up he exhales, keeps his knees straight, and pretends he's doing yoga. 

He sounds very busy, not a lot of swinging in the hammock time, this is serious work.