A beautiful morning
3rd March, 2008A beautiful morning brought fresh enthusiasm to the team after a night spent on the floor of the E-Base squashed in like sardines. After yesterday’s windy afternoon stalled our attempts to get the E-Home Weatherhaven tent built our first task was to get this completed before this evening’s predicted storms set in. Finishing this would also allow us to move most of the boxes out of the E-Base to give us a bit more room.
Success! By lunchtime the E-Base was ready and base camp was starting to take shape. The afternoon then consisted of moving equipment and provisions into the E-Home, building a stone wall to help protect it from the storms and collecting the remainder of our base, a few Mongolian Yurt tents, and preparing them for tomorrow.
We’ve now been living off basic food items (especially crackers and chocolate) for the past couple of days. Thank goodness for the fantastic fruit, yogurts and other fresh food that the crew from the Sergei Vavilov – the ship that brought us here - gave us as a leaving present. It’s amazing how good an apple tastes down here!
Tomorrow, if the winds die down, we hope to get a wind turbine up and running!
All in all, a good day of honest graft. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow we will be living in Antarctica powered by renewable energy!!
