Starting to get amongst the icebergs now, but the swell has dropped and its pretty nuch flat. Still keeping my eye out for any good iceberg banks, but none in sight, just albatrosses and whales. Arrived at Casey, no wind but also no swell. Checked out a weather map down there, and there is no shortage of intense low pressure systems, half of them lower than tropical cyclone Monty, which is hanging off the West Australian coast at the moment. Apparently the pack-ice outside the bay that we broke through to get in stops any swell getting in. Water temperature is a balmy -1 to 2°C, the salt is the only thing stopping it from freezing, and in fact the first night we were there a slick of
grease ice formed over the surface of the bay due to the lack of wind to break it up. In winter the bay freezes up completely and you can drive across the sea ice from one side to the other.