Saturday was a normal day of work with marine life disrupting diving so instead there was more crew training and CTD. In the afternoon I made some sugar cookies for smoko this week and showed one of the Board members who came down on the Dash around the boatshed. Claire made brownies for Helen’s 30 birthday and I helped out a little in the kitchen as it was the Air Mechs BBQ and Clive was on Gash.

Claire and I headed up the hill for an hour and half of nordic skiing skinning up the ramp to work off all the food we were going to wolf down at the BBQ.

We all got dressed to go across to the hanger in our best insulated boiler suits! I wore my black little number as orange isn’t really my color!

The bar Rothera style – no need for ice!

Ant and Tristan

The band was excellent as usual and had practiced 4 different Ceilidh dances. Alan (the chief pilot) had for the first time in history removed the planes from the hanger and put them on the apron so that the hanger became our dance floor.

So Helen had a great 30th birthday party albiet a little chilly but after doing one or two dances people took off their boiler suits.

The fire in the BBQ was really nice to stand by and smell the wood burning – something I miss is a good fire at home. At midnight it was time to head home across the runway and it really was a beautiful sunset.