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Depot work and sediment sampling
Penguin on monday night with Claire and Adam
It was a busy morning at the boatshed yesterday as we knew the weather would get bad today so we pulled some work forward and took two visiting Malaysian scientists out to Anchorage to collect some soil samples. The scientists are a professor and her masters student – Felix and Irene. Their FA was Ben Tibbets and myself and Danny decided to take the boat together.
We landed on Anchorage amoungst lots of elephant seals which although smelly weren’t that active. However, the skuas were very active so the best thing to do was carry a spade above your head to stop getting attacked by them.
While Danny went looking for the emergency depot to get a GPS co-ordinate and the scientists and FA went off to get soil I stayed at the hut and did some work on it. I took a fully inventory of the contents and also re did the guy wires and dug out the solar panel and a bunch of wires from the snow. It was sunny so I was just in trousers and a light fleece. It was therapeutic work which I enjoyed being out on an island with just the birds and seals surrounding me and great visibility across to all the moutains on the peninsula. When I was done with the work I climbed the hill and took a few photos.
We got back in time for lunch and then continued the normally boat maintenance in the afternoon as Mel wasn’t able to go diving as she had an experiment going on. I thought it would be an early evening however, I got involved at the sewing loft trying to repair the industrial sewing machine that someone broke. It really is needed for getting stuff made on base so as I didn’t finish completing it until well into dinner time I will go back this afternoon.
After dinner Adam, Claire and I went up to Vals and did a few runs. Claire was excited to break in her new skis. With the snow melting so fast it was a bit icy on Vals and it is almost getting to blue ice on the ramp. There was a group doing field training – those that just came in on the Dash – so we stopped in at the Caboose and had cuppa before heading home at 10:30pm. Another great day down south!
5 Responses to “Depot work and sediment sampling”
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Maybe antartic would like one of my sewing machines! Love mum
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Its fun to read how much fun you are having , love DAD
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Rebecca December 10th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
I knew it! We have been having a record breaking cold temperatures in Denver this week, with the temperature being either at or below zero without the windchill and much colder than that with the windchill. I have been walking to the train every morning looking like a lime green marshmellow thinking to myself that I need to tough it out because it is colder where Ashley is and … you were wearing a light fleece!
Typical… 🙂
Can you get a pciture inside the round hut the next time you are out there? I am curious to see if it is bigger inside than it looks. -R
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Oh would love to see the inside of the red round building too. We just came through one of the coldest weeks on record in the bay area. 27 degrees F for the first time in I think they said 30 years. What a great time to move here from steamy hot Miami….
I would also love to see photos of the Dash 7.
Paige
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Becca and Paige
Right now we are having our third day of 40 knot winds bringing the temperature down to about -10 with the windchill. November was the sunniest and least cloudy month in the history of Rothera. So basically seems like the whole worlds weather has gone nuts!I will put up some pictures of the huts this week on the inside they are really nicely put together. I am determined to use them as much as possible as I don’t want them to be closed down.
Paige I wil get the dash 7 photo for you up as well.
Hope you all are having a great holiday season.
