On Sunday morning Ali and myself took Pat out to Frio and Dongsan for a transhipment inspection. By the time he had finished the weather was becoming quite miserable – sleety etc. However, there were some Cape Petrels which Ali wanted to photograph so we stayed out a little longer to get some pictures for him. With a perfect swell pattern on the way out to pick Pat back up we got a new speed record on the jet boats of 34.2 knots!

The last few days we got a huge snowfall. It started Sunday evening and continued till the early hours of tuesday morning. The snow was wet and heavy like what we all Sierra Cement in california. I was on earlies on Monday morning so there was alot of digging to do on the veranda.

For dinner I decided to make ravioli as I had brought some wholemeal pasta flour south. I used the left over turkey from Saturday and mixed that with spinach, onion and eggs to put in the pasta. A lot of work much easier to buy it! Served it with a vegetable pasta sauce and some avacados with a balsalmic reduction sauce.

We have mince meat that is really very bad quality and seeing as no one can stomach it I spent the day cooking it so that we can dispose of it. All out meat has to be cooked so that the wildlife don’t get any possible diseases from raw meat. This is also why we are not meant to have meat on the bone. As the bones would have to be incinerated.

This morning the whole base got involved in digging out as we were basically stuck in Everson and there was no way to get in the boatshed without a lot of digging!

After the doors and veranda it was time to attack the jet boats.

So basically all day involved using a shovel and then some boat work.

It was a windy but absolutely stunning day shame we weren’t able to go sking as the track is closed as there are avalanches coming down off the slopes of Duse. We have started watching the series Pacific by the same director etc as Band of Brothers it is a great series.