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Author: Ian
Greek God
The last week has been a slow journey of winding our way through the sea ice of the Weddell Sea, occasionally getting stuck for between 15 minutes and 8 hours at a time.
For the last few days we've been trying to find a route through the sea ice toward our destination...
So we've nearly reached 60° South and I was woken up At 6am with the first bangs and crashes as we found the edge of the sea-ice...
Today we had our fist iceberg sighting at 49 degrees south (which I'm told is quite a way north). We have to get to 75 degrees south, so there's quite a way to go yet...
So who would have thought that the long journey to Halley base would come to a grinding halt outside Carlisle due to frozen points?
Its flipping cold out there, especially if you’re a chicken and living in a coop! Today was the girls’ first experience of snow and they weren’t impressed. It took a while to encourage them out and when i did they huddled in a small mass of feathers. To cheer them up a bit I rushed …
Today the weather played fair with sun and blue skies for the Derwent Water 10, a clockwise circuit of Derwent Water...
This weekend was Arthur's 60th birthday bash!!
A matter of weeks before heading south......
