There's been so much going over the past couple of weeks that I haven't had the opportunity to stop and put things in this blog. So here goes a quick rundown and in no particular order:
- A flight to Woop Woop (the name of the skiway at Davis)
- Cruising through the icebergs around Casey
- Spending a night in a field hut
- Driving these tracked vehicles called Hagglunds around in the snow
- Taking quad bikes for a swim in the melt streams
Did I mention that we're involved in research program for NASA? It's designed around the psychology of living and working with people in a remote place for a long period of time. It'll probably help them with long term exploration missions and that sort of thing.
I've also done a bit of cross country skiing, joined the band and this week we're doing search and rescue (SAR) training. There'll be plenty more acronyms to come, because that's what working for the public service is all about.
The next few weeks after this one are looking just as busy on the work front - who knows when I'll get around to doing the next post??
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| Are we there yet? |
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| How'd you manage to get us bogged without any melt stream around? |
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| Somewhere between Casey and Davis with lots of crevasses |
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| Hey hey we're the Monkeys |
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| Robbos hut as viewed from the boats |
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| A large melt stream (because that's what you expect to see in the Antarctic) |
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| The plane! The plane! |
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| Boating around bergs! |
I'm going to take a stab in the snow and guess you meant to write Search and Rescue...
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing Antarctic woodwind ensembles or similar in one of the follow-up posts
Fixed, thanks for that. Not so much of the woodwind ensemble, I've branched out into other instruments and happen to play them with vigour, but really badly!
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily a bad thing, as long as you and others enjoy your efforts mate :)
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