Hi Barbara
Glad to hear you are enjoying the site... all this feedback is
encouraging me to keep up those late evenings trying to upload the
photos here at New Harbour!!
> I'd like to know if cooking dinner at New Harbour took longer than at
> home?
The cooking here takes a little longer probably because we are wearing
such a lot of heavy clothing and big heavy boots that our movements
are slower! haha. But also we have to get our own snow to melt for
water and always remember to defrost our food from outside that we are
wanting to cook that night. We use a height system for defrosting and
cooling. The floor is the fridge (outside is the freezer), one shelf
up is a little warmer and top shelf is warm enough to defrost!
Apart from that it is the same as back home... oh well, except that
everything seems much slower here (Antarctic rubber time! Dinner
anytime from about 8pm to 10pm!!)
> And how wide was the hole for Chazz in the sea ice? Were you able to
> measure how thick the ice was?
Yes, the ice is 4m thick. We drop a tape measure down the hole which
has a metal rod attached at the end of it. This hooks onto the bottom
of the sea ice when the tape measure is pulled up against the edge of
the hole and then we can see how long it is.
The ice hole is about 1.5m wide. It has to be wide enough for two
divers to come up at a time, just in case something goes wrong to a
diver and they have to be buddied up the ice hole.
> It saw this on the t-shirt of one of the Professor's at Vic and
> thought of you:
> Amongst the vast colonies of penguins there's a
> small group of Kiwis. Scott Base.
> I hope you can find a t-shirt with that on it.
YES, they have that very t-shirt for sale still at the Scott Base
shop! I will buy one when I get back there and wear it to the next
PSTF gathering! haha
Thanks so much for your lovely positive comments. I am encouraged.
Cheers
Trisha
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