Waking up to the familiar noise of the running engines, to
the sound of ice scratching against the hull of the ship, another bright day on
the Aurora starts. Tomorrwo three weeks ago we departed from Hobart. Across the
Southern Ocean we headed South, waiting for the Big Waves to hit and rock the
boat, then we were excited about hitting the ice, the rocking of the boat to
easy and the peacefulness of the ice. Now having been in the ice the talk is
“can’t wait until we are in Davis”. It’s a kind of restlessness, always waiting
for the next seems to be the notion of the day. Is this the restless of our
society, always wanting, always restless never arriving and living in the
moment. As I am writing this I am actually sitting a few hundred miles away in
the bar of Mawson Station. We certainly arrived, and I can only say that I have
entirely enjoyed every moment along the Journey, I enjoyed the friendship of my
fellow travellers, the fun times of our Morning Yoga, Pilates, Zumba exercise
party, common meals the great hospitality of the Aurora Crew, the good food
prepared by the cooks and kitchen fairies, The Captain with his first, second
and third mates, the ships engineers and all the helping helpful hands. Our
Voyage management team which made the journey seemingly effortless.
Overall a
great team working together to get all of us to our destinations and our
mission of resupplying Davis Station accomplished. Not to forget all the people
outside of the ship, who in Kingston, Hobart, work relentless to provide for
example reports about sea-ice, downloading , interpreting and providing
Satellite imagery used to guide the ship towards leads in the sea-ice. The
helicopter team which weather permitting have been flying Recci flight to guide
us through the ice, as well the aircraft support of the Ken Borek Basler
aircraft providing the same service from Davis Station. Today our travels made
significant progress towards Davis Station and it seems as if finally are on
the move and getting closer to destination.
With this a BIG BIG THANKS to everyone involved in this
endeavour.
On the work side, I did more reading and some emailing,
started to repack our gear for arrival at Davis and onward transfer to Mawson
Station. In the evening another interesting science talk about ice sheet
history and deciphering ice history from the rebound of the Earth’s crust after
glacier retreat, removing loading on the Earth’s crust.
After Sunset- another beautiful sunset before putting my
head down for the night
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