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Rothera Station
After a fun day yesterday and this morning of rock collecting (the
weather has been beautiful, inspiring some to go swimming yesterday
afternoon after collecting rocks!) we have just arrived at Rothera
Station, a British base here in Marguerite Bay. The rock collecting
has been fun, today was cold though and the first site we dropped off
on was another hairy beach landing through slick ice, so I managed to
get really wet, then we visited 5-6 other places in the zodiac, so I
got kind of cold too. My feet are still like blocks of ice, but
warming up slowly. Needless to say I was not one to go swimming
yesterday, or i'd still be cold right now!
Stian just headed out to get the zodiacs ready to take people over,
and we'll have a few hours to get a tour of the base and look around.
Should be fun. After this we're headed back to Station E to continue
sampling where we were weathered out, then we'll head into Palmer
Station (via Peterson Field Camp to pick up some left over
equipment). On the way we will have a crossing ceremony - we crossed
the Antarctic Circle and King Neptune noticed, so all those who have
not crossed before (or in my case have crossed but never did a
ceremony or got a certificate) will be putting on a show for the
Kings court and then tested to see if we are worthy. Having done the
Equator crossing i'm told this is somewhat more mellow, but all us
Wogs met last night to plan our show and i think it's going to be a
good one........:0)
1 comment:
I hope its mellow. My crossing was more that just a show... that was just the beginning. :-) The worse part was the end - getting hosed off with ice cold seawater. burrr. Have FUN!
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