I was able to go to land yesterday (Mon) to level the tide station. This is Christie in the picture, when we are en route to Bear Cove for the tide work. On the way I passed gorgeous mountains, glaciers, and several sea otters. Rush hour...It was great to walk around for a few hours. The short of it is we make sure our tide gauge is reading the water level correctly so that when we apply tides to our multibeam depths, we are certain they are correct. There is a lot of cool measuring and calculating involved. For part of the day I leveled to the benchmarks, and the rest I sat in the skiff just off the beach and read our tide level every 6 minutes for almost three hours. Oh the excitement. It really was a cool trip and a nice break from being on the ship or launch all day doing the multibeam work.
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