Trip to Gatekeeper

Trip to Gatekeeper

We had a couple of trips out to a crevasse near here called Gatekeeper recently. It was a chance to get people off base to go and do something, as well as getting in some more training for the SAR (search and rescue) team, of which I am a part. I went out on one of the trips last weekend and took some pretty rubbish photos before my battery died, but they at least give you a little idea of what we were up to. The contrast that day was quite poor, which didn’t help. I did manage to grab my other camera out to catch the spectacular sunset we were fortunate to be driving back to base under though. Amazing!

Folk Night

Folk Night

We had a great open mic type night here not too long ago. A number of people put their egos on the line and got up and performed and it really was a lot of fun. I got roped into doing a couple of numbers with Pete, our local wintering musical guru. He plays the guitar beautifully and let me ruin it with my totally mediocre uke playing, which I hope I masked successfully with my singing?! I do have recorded footage of these, to be shown to a select few at a later date…perhaps. A scary evening…but a lot of fun! And I also got dragged in to a couple of other acts along the way too. Everybody did really well and it was such a good evening and something we’ll hopefully do a bit more of in the winter…with a slightly smaller audience.

Sunset

We recently had our first sunset since getting here in November. We missed celebrating the first “official” sunset as it was masked by heavy cloud for a few evenings. But we made sure to mark it when we could by going up to upper obs for the best view in the house. Notice Natalie sporting the latest in Antarctic sunset spotting eyewear.

The evenings are now getting longer and it’s pretty much dark for a while at night. The temperatures are slowly dropping and work is winding up here for the summer.