We have all spent the last 4 days coming to terms with the routine of the ship.
Mostly this revolves around meal times; up for breakfast (7-8am), a bit of a read or watch a film, then lunch (12-1.30). After lunch its an hour in the gym and a bit more reading and then onto dinner at 6pm.
This routine though is nicely broken up with the occasional first aid talk from the doctor, or if you are on “gash†duty: involving 3 of us on a rota (so it comes around every 6 days) helping out in the kitchen and with general duties. Everything of course on board has to be “shipshapeâ€. The steward is extremely particular and doesn’t like to see: (quote) “slack gash” on the ship.
This makes the day go a lot quicker, and makes you appreciate how hard the Chefs and Steward work all the time.
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.
The prospective date for reaching base is now about 24th December.
The other thing to get used to is gaining 5 hours over a period of just over a week. We have left Cape Town at GMT +2 and at Halley we will be at GMT -3, so we are getting an extra hour in bed every other day for 10 days!
Oh, hang on…….. Is that another meal bell?????
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
Bloody hell, it must be so exciting – you’re on your way to Antarctica dude!!! Icebergs! Wow! It’ll be penguins soon… 😛
Looks brilliant… where’s the g&t?
The sea looks reasonably calm. Have you had any big waves yet?
More ship pics please!
What’s the daytime temperature like?
Awesome, hope you have having fun.