The end of season is approaching fast. In less than three weeks I will be on the RRS Shackleton heading north on a 14 day cruise stopping at all the BAS stations doing last call or closing them up for the winter. In some ways I am looking forward to the cruise as it is something I have wanted to do for years but I am going to miss a few things about this place.

Last night at 11:30pm the last two twin otters headed North to Punta and today the two otters that left last week got into Calgary where the BAS planes live for the southern winter. It was an amazing site to see the apron, hanger and the runway all lit up for them to take off. However, as it was a night take off they didn’t do the traditional low fly by. Danny was on SAR so he has the boat on the crane down at the wharf.

This morning the Dash 7 left with 9 people onboard for Punta and north onto Canada. She will be back October 16th when the first summer people come back onto base. Their fly by was pretty low but not the lowest I have experienced – I was out on SAR at South Cove on the boat to wave them off and said good by on the Aero VHF to the pilots Alan and Mark.

We are moving to winter work hours starting this weekend which means no working saturday or sunday and 9-5 monday thru friday. So more time to head out into the hills and bag some more peaks.