17 - 23rd July
Hi All,
This week has been a big week of working down in the Dieso’s Hanger. Andrew and I have had to move all Comms equipment out of one Hagg, which is being sent back to Austrlaia at the end of the season and refit a new Hagg. This meant moving the HF Radio, the Radar, GPS Unit, Headsets and VHF Radio. It was a big job and a dirty one. Scrambling around inside and out the Hagg. On the roof. In the cabin. Running wires, drilling holes in the wall, fitting new mounting brackets. I was filthy for days, covered in grease and dirt, fingernails black. ICK! But it wasn’t too bad a job. It was actually a bit of fun and kind of new for me. I haven’t done a lot of install work, let alone remove and reinstall a full radar system in a vehicle before. So once again, new jobs, new work. It is one of the good things about being down here. So much different work to do and lots of variety.
On Wednesday I was fortunate enough to be able to take off for a visit to Jack’s for the day. I have never been there before so it was nice to get out and about to yet another new location. It is a really nice spot and I think I will spend a bit of time up there as the weather gets warmer.
Then we had the second week of Time Trial’s for the Hanger Ratz. I had spent a fair bit of time on my rat fixing it and making it pretty. It wont win the longest flight, but it might win the prettiest. It now looks very special indeed! Andrew had an amazing flight of 48 seconds. So he is the leader ahead of Cliff who managed a very close 45 seconds.
This week there was only one lot of carnage and that was John who over wound his motor and shattered his fuselage into about 6 pieces. Ouch!
Saturday night was our karaoke night. This was a pretty big night indeed and the reason this Blog update is late. I ran the bar and made cocktails all night to ensure enough Dutch courage was poured into everyone. The whole night was a hoot. Ray started us off very early in the evening just after our dinner of sushi. Then it was on. The voices were terrible! The costumes hilarious and all in all it was a fabulous evening.
I awoke with a headache, but wasn’t too bad considering I was pretty hammered the night before. Thank goodness Robbie forced me to drink heaps of water before I went to bed.
And that is it for this last week. We have yet another blizzard today. I have to say, the weather this month has been atrocious. We are averaging a blizzard a week at the moment and the charts don’t look like much of a let up for this week either. I guess you get that in the Antarctic hey? ;o]
Till next week.
Have a good one.
Trace
This week has been a big week of working down in the Dieso’s Hanger. Andrew and I have had to move all Comms equipment out of one Hagg, which is being sent back to Austrlaia at the end of the season and refit a new Hagg. This meant moving the HF Radio, the Radar, GPS Unit, Headsets and VHF Radio. It was a big job and a dirty one. Scrambling around inside and out the Hagg. On the roof. In the cabin. Running wires, drilling holes in the wall, fitting new mounting brackets. I was filthy for days, covered in grease and dirt, fingernails black. ICK! But it wasn’t too bad a job. It was actually a bit of fun and kind of new for me. I haven’t done a lot of install work, let alone remove and reinstall a full radar system in a vehicle before. So once again, new jobs, new work. It is one of the good things about being down here. So much different work to do and lots of variety.
On Wednesday I was fortunate enough to be able to take off for a visit to Jack’s for the day. I have never been there before so it was nice to get out and about to yet another new location. It is a really nice spot and I think I will spend a bit of time up there as the weather gets warmer.
Then we had the second week of Time Trial’s for the Hanger Ratz. I had spent a fair bit of time on my rat fixing it and making it pretty. It wont win the longest flight, but it might win the prettiest. It now looks very special indeed! Andrew had an amazing flight of 48 seconds. So he is the leader ahead of Cliff who managed a very close 45 seconds.
This week there was only one lot of carnage and that was John who over wound his motor and shattered his fuselage into about 6 pieces. Ouch!
Saturday night was our karaoke night. This was a pretty big night indeed and the reason this Blog update is late. I ran the bar and made cocktails all night to ensure enough Dutch courage was poured into everyone. The whole night was a hoot. Ray started us off very early in the evening just after our dinner of sushi. Then it was on. The voices were terrible! The costumes hilarious and all in all it was a fabulous evening.
I awoke with a headache, but wasn’t too bad considering I was pretty hammered the night before. Thank goodness Robbie forced me to drink heaps of water before I went to bed.
And that is it for this last week. We have yet another blizzard today. I have to say, the weather this month has been atrocious. We are averaging a blizzard a week at the moment and the charts don’t look like much of a let up for this week either. I guess you get that in the Antarctic hey? ;o]
Till next week.
Have a good one.
Trace
posted by Tracey in Casey - Antarctica at 8:46 am
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