June 12 - 18
Hey All,
Well another week has flown by.
We had a Blizz for 3 days and I was a bit worried by Friday. My name was down on the board to go out for a Quad trip to drill the Sea Ice to Browning and I was looking forward to it.
As it turned out the Blizz was courteous enough to blow itself out in the wee small hours of Saturday morning so we headed off at about 10am – before the sun rose. As always when a Blizz is around, the temperature rises, so it was in a lovely balmy -12 degrees that we set off on our quads for Browning.
The trip down was slow, surface definition was pretty well non existent due to the full overcast skies. When no shadow is cast it is very hard to make out hills, bumps, holes, etc in the endless white of the snow. The snow was also quite deep, having fallen fairly constantly all week before the Blizz. My agenda wasn’t really sea ice drilling, it was to visit my beautiful grounded Blue Berg in Sparkes Bay. Ever since my last trip to Robbo’s when I first saw it – in open water at that stage – I have wanted to be able to get right up next to it. It is so beautiful. I was so happy that Sparkes Bay Sea Ice had not blown out in the Blizz. It seems pretty well locked in by the surrounding Islands, which is a good thing. So I was able to ride up to this massive and amazing blue monster of a Berg.
Once again, not so long ago I was flying through these open water in a boat. Now I am flying along the same stretch of water on 1 metre thick sea ice on a quad. It still blows me away that we can do this!
The five of us all had a ball. It was a great day. These are the days to live for down here. When you can leave station and just take off. Off into the wilderness with a few mates, out and about to see and do all that you can fit into 4 hours of daylight. Magic!
All day today – Sunday – I have been in the kitchen with Robbie cooking for mid winter. We are going to have enough food to feed about 100 damn people! But this is the day the chef can really show his skills and go all out. And Robbie is pulling out all the stops. We will cook for the next two days straight, ready for mid winter on Wednesday.
The day has been glorious – though very cold. At one stage I looked at the temp and it was -26. Glad to be indoors today, just looking at the beautiful view over the Bay from the kitchen. I did race out and take some happy snaps when it was particularly colorful and gorgeous today. Andrew toodled off to Jack's Donga today with some of the boys and had a great day. They were lucky enough to see an Emperor penguin and a seal. The light was fabulous for photos as well, so all in all another great weekend at casey.
Anyway, that is all for the week.
Have a good one.
T x
Well another week has flown by.
We had a Blizz for 3 days and I was a bit worried by Friday. My name was down on the board to go out for a Quad trip to drill the Sea Ice to Browning and I was looking forward to it.
As it turned out the Blizz was courteous enough to blow itself out in the wee small hours of Saturday morning so we headed off at about 10am – before the sun rose. As always when a Blizz is around, the temperature rises, so it was in a lovely balmy -12 degrees that we set off on our quads for Browning.
The trip down was slow, surface definition was pretty well non existent due to the full overcast skies. When no shadow is cast it is very hard to make out hills, bumps, holes, etc in the endless white of the snow. The snow was also quite deep, having fallen fairly constantly all week before the Blizz. My agenda wasn’t really sea ice drilling, it was to visit my beautiful grounded Blue Berg in Sparkes Bay. Ever since my last trip to Robbo’s when I first saw it – in open water at that stage – I have wanted to be able to get right up next to it. It is so beautiful. I was so happy that Sparkes Bay Sea Ice had not blown out in the Blizz. It seems pretty well locked in by the surrounding Islands, which is a good thing. So I was able to ride up to this massive and amazing blue monster of a Berg.
Once again, not so long ago I was flying through these open water in a boat. Now I am flying along the same stretch of water on 1 metre thick sea ice on a quad. It still blows me away that we can do this!
The five of us all had a ball. It was a great day. These are the days to live for down here. When you can leave station and just take off. Off into the wilderness with a few mates, out and about to see and do all that you can fit into 4 hours of daylight. Magic!
All day today – Sunday – I have been in the kitchen with Robbie cooking for mid winter. We are going to have enough food to feed about 100 damn people! But this is the day the chef can really show his skills and go all out. And Robbie is pulling out all the stops. We will cook for the next two days straight, ready for mid winter on Wednesday.
The day has been glorious – though very cold. At one stage I looked at the temp and it was -26. Glad to be indoors today, just looking at the beautiful view over the Bay from the kitchen. I did race out and take some happy snaps when it was particularly colorful and gorgeous today. Andrew toodled off to Jack's Donga today with some of the boys and had a great day. They were lucky enough to see an Emperor penguin and a seal. The light was fabulous for photos as well, so all in all another great weekend at casey.
Anyway, that is all for the week.
Have a good one.
T x
posted by Tracey in Casey - Antarctica at 5:14 pm
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