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January 16, 2005 (Sunday)

Daily Journal Entries : Judy | Paquita

I arrived in Antigua yesterday afternoon and found Judy in full swing! The island was pretty interesting, it's not just all tourists! A lot of people live here.

We left this morning at the crack of dawn, and went to the lee side of an island - that's the side where the island protects you from the winds, so that it's calmer. Not only was it nice for us green folk just coming on the boat, who don't have sea legs, but the instrumentation was able to run all day without getting rain and salt on it. The instruments are only 5 ft above the water level! It is easy for them to get sprayed.

Another science thing we did was get the boat close enough to land, that the cloud radar could get the land signal. A big challenge of a ship project, is how to correct your data for all the motion. By pointing your radar at a fixed object like land, you can see if your math for the ship motion is correct - if it works, the land will be still, just like it should be.

Tomorrow we go to a windier place, not so comfortable but more like Caribbean open water, so we'll know our data is more typical.

One of the scientists saw a dolphin!

Paquita