my room with no view

Decided to answer two questions today. These answers come with photos so aren't y'all lucky

1. was your room (sorry, cabin) really that small?
2. what is shuga?

well my room on the ship (Aurora Australis) was very small. But usually your working or asleep so that is just fine. You can have a bunk each and sleep top or bottom or do what you like. Or you can have one side as a bunk and the other as a "lounge"/work area. This photo shows the latter. I always like the port side. This is cabin D12 - my fav.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis_(icebreaker)

before the desk (you can see the chair in the fore ground) is the shower/toilet cubicle and apposite that is where all the cold weather gear hangs. It is compact but perfect. A funny and true story involves two friends of mine playing chess on that little table under the port hole. We were at sea. A freak wave then came thru the port hole and drenched them, the chess set, their beds...well you get the picture. It was awesome (because it didn't happen to me)

This is a photo of a shuga "field". Shuga is an early stage of more visible forms of sea ice. It is an accumulation of spongy white lumps, a few centimetres across, just beneath the sea surface. They are formed from grease/slush ice if the freezing takes place in sea water which is considerably agitated. Pancake ice usually forms when the water conditions are calmer

I always thought i was more a shuga girl.

For further sea ice terms: http://tinyurl.com/qfco4z (WMO nomenclature - canada)