Well not really but for South Georgia it was busy!

This morning was a busy start to the week. Ali, Katie and Matt headed off to Sorling on holiday after base meeting. We filled the RIB with the gear and I took the jet boat. The visibility was not great for most of the trip I used the radar and there were large sections of brash ice to work our way through as we got closer to the Nordenskol.

After dropping the happy campers off we headed to the ice cliffs of the Nordenskol to map the face using the radar. We were lucky and for a little while the fog lifted so we could actually see the glacier. We slowly moved along 1/4 mile off parrallel to the ice cliff and created a track with waypoints I will put this into the computer and before I leave in December will do the track again and we will see how much the glacier has receded.

After leaving the glacier we headed back to base as quickly as the conditions allowed as there was a krill boat transshipping to the factory ship in the bay and Robert needed to go aboard and give them a licence. When the brash cleared a bit the guys in the RIB had some fun catch some air off the jet boat wake!

Due to the fog which had now decreased visiblity to about 1/8 mile the fishing vessels were slowed down so there was time for lunch, weekly checks and a few more small jobs. Updated the waypoints on the RIBs and next weeks trailer checks including removing the wheel and cleaning the hubs etc. As we are on winter holiday next week with the main day being midwinter day – 21st we are getting all the jobs done so we come back to a clean slate.

Sunrise today was at 8:45am and sunset at 4:07pm so I am looking forward to the days getting longer after midwinter day.

In between the maintenance tasks we took Robert out to the ship off Hope Point luckily the visiblity cleared to about 1/2 mile so I didn’t have to creep to the ship at 4 knots so it was a quick trip out and back an hour and half later.

After a week and half out of action with my virus I decided to get back to exercising today and did an hour on the bike in front of a World at War. It was an interesting episode on the Death of Hitler and the controversy over whether he shot himself or killed himself with sionide (spelling?).