Icy Lookout and Beautiful Sunset
November 28th (Thursday) We awoke to quiet and stillness. Through the night the wind had progressively gotten less and by early morning it had died off completely. It was a beautiful glassy calm, sunny, cold morning. We went out to check our prawn traps, and it almost felt warm. The air was still quite cold, but because their was no wind, it felt warm in comparison to the last couple of days. On our way out in Kiki we noticed a large area on the glassy water that looked weird. We went over to investigate and found that it was a large thin sheet of floating ice. We saw a couple more areas of ice on our way, and I imagine that fresh water must have had a chance to freeze overnight, and then had gotten lifted up and carried away on the morning tide. Between our two prawn traps we got 47 keepers. Interestingly, if you remember how many large females we were getting in Seaforth Channel, out from both Mouat and Wigham Cove, well here we only got one female in each trap. That’s a huge d...