What a stunning day to go out boating. We dropped Pat off on La Manche and Saga Sea to do transhipment paperwork.

Then using the food scraps to encourage the birds (a bit naughty) the back deck of Prion became a Paparazzi photography point! You can’t see Sam and Ali’s cameras but there lenses are very very long!

The bird they were particularly interested in was the Cape Petrel (picture by Ali). You can see more about the bird at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Petrel

The afternoon was spent doing some boat maintenance projects unfortunately I didn’t get out for skinning as I am going on holidays tomorrow so had some things to wrap up. Doc School was a reminder of how our stretcher system works. On my way up to Everson Ali gleefully showed off a snow hole he had dug in one of the large snowdrifts that he can fully get inside of – I see him improving it over the next few days 🙂

Wow do I really need that much kit. I still have to put on the skis, snowshoes, plastics, pack the stove fuel etc etc. Going to be another heavy load to lug up and down the beautifuls hills of South Georgia! We are off to the Barff Peninsula for 5 days of skiing and snowshoeing camping on the east side of the Peninsula in the hopes of getting some stunning sunrises over the Southern Ocean.