With just 2 hours before I travel the 15kms to the coast to get on the ship, a last blog from the Brunt Ice Shelf. This week has seen the final modules pulled to the Halley 6 site and joined to the rest…
There is still a lot of work to be done in the modules, but for this season the work is over. Some of the work is behind schedule (mechanical and electrical) but at least the decoration is ahead of
where we expected to be…
The base seems really a large undertaking when you are working around it every day, but when it is seen in its position on the ice shelf, it is really only a speck in the vastness of white…
Series - Antarctic Painting
- Polar Painting
- Journey South
- The Journey Continues; Iceberg Ahoy!
- Ice Ice Baby
- The Weddell Sea
- Nearly there!!
- Halley 6 : On The Ice
- All Work and No Play
- Different Shades of Grey
- Racing Penguin
- The Move Begins
- Moving Postcard from Antarctica
- Winter approaches
- The Halley Marathon
- The Final Week
- The Journey North
- Antarctic Painting – Year 3
- Antarctic Demolition
It’s amazing. How did you get those pictures?
Safe journey home.
The whole thing looks like some kind of weird train waiting for an equally weird (massive) locomotive to turn up and pull the whole thing off to the pole… 🙄
Hope you packed that pet penguin. 😆
Sorry Grim – haven’t been reading your blog. Just did a marathon session start to finish – fantastic. What a trip – Cape Town (any Zulu warriors about?). Searching for slack gash on board 😯 , the Weddell sea (who’da thought they’d name a sea after Rich?). Driving the boat (Skip could have given you a lend of his hat for the photo. Was there a setting on that lever marked “Ramming Speed”?). Footy on the ice (ski poles for goalposts?), sending up an inflatable No 37 bus to record the weather. Running a marathon on ice at -10C in 4hr30 – sterling effort. Fabulous photos – did you take them all? And the highlight of the whole trip – winning the Christmas raffle. All that training at the Polar Bear, Hounslow, paid off (how prophetic was that?) but HOW MANY TICKETS DID YOU BUY?
Bet you’re looking forward to seeing some grass.
Flo sends her love.
Yes – how did you manage to get that last photo – you appear to be some way above the ice?
The final pictures from the plane were taken by Kirk the resident film maker. We are all busy working while he just takes pics. All the rest were mine. In the fist pic, I’m one of the 2 people stood to the right of the bottom module!
I thought I recognised you! 😉
Hope you got my last comment Ian….enjoy the luxury cruise(!) and look forward to seeing you when you can look a paintbrush in the eye again.