On Friday I was hoping to be left off at Harpon to get a coat of paint on the hut and stay the night. However, with work being done by tech services on our hyrdoelectric plant there wasn’t enough people to run the boats. So instead we went and picked up Kieron and Ruth at Carlita. It was a stunning day to be on the water and we had some fun on the way over there with the RIB jumping over the jet boats waves. The picture by Sam above has 3320 (which we climbed a month ago) in the background rising above Lyell Glacier.

After getting back Alastair and I headed did our scrub out duties and headed out to Maiviken to tag a seal with the GPS and try to get the seal that had evaded us on thrusday. After tagging the seal we went in search of seal number 29 and she was again sitting on the island in the middle of the lake.

So this time I took my walking boots off and waded into the water with just my socks on as I didn’t want to have wet boots over night! Needless to say she jumped off the island when we got there and swam further down the lake. Determined to get her even though it was 6pm we trapsed through the tussock and found her sitting on a rock the other side of the lake taunting us. So we decided to call it a day and come back on Saturday.

We went back to Maiviken hut and put dinner on the primus and Alastair got the camp fire going hanging up our socks to dry.

As Alastair had not taken his boots off to wade across to the island they were soaking wet so he resorted to gloves to keep his second pair of socks dry!

I didn’t want to sit on the damp grass next to the fire so I made a bench out of the roof and sides of the old generator shed that was next to the hut and was not longer in use. This picture also shows the new panel we put in and the paint job on the hut that we did on saturday morning. Also in front of the hut is the bench I made on Friday night while the dinner was on the stove!