{"id":20,"date":"2008-01-01T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T11:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/2008\/01\/01\/new-year\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T14:22:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T14:22:35","slug":"new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still aboard the Agulhas, holding station off the ice shelf.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve finished the ramp and unloaded all the heavy cargo.\u00c2\u00a0 Poor weather prevented us from flying yesterday, so the lighter cargo operations had to wait.\u00c2\u00a0 The benefit of the poor weather was that we had very heavy snowfall onboard, with some drifts up to 30cm deep.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0We had\u00c2\u00a0a good snowball fight on the newly cleared foredeck, followed by a\u00c2\u00a0roaring party\u00c2\u00a0last night – about half the expedition teams have been transferred to SANAE IV already, but they’ve been replaced with German construction workers left without a home because their construction ship is still stuck in heavy ice.\u00c2\u00a0 They were flown in\u00c2\u00a0to construct the new Neumayer station, but the temporary accomodation cannot be offloaded due to the thick bay ice, so they were being hosted at SANAE.\u00c2\u00a0 In any case, we had a festive night, celebrating SA’s New Year at 2200 ship’s time, then Germany’s at 2300, then our own at 0000.\u00c2\u00a0 Whee.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, the tables were empty at breakfast \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

Today “dawned” beautiful, with a\u00c2\u00a0clear sky, flat sea and almost no wind.\u00c2\u00a0 One can work outside in short sleeves if active.\u00c2\u00a0 The light cargo (smaller containers and fuel drums for the choppers) was flown off to the depot on the ice shelf.\u00c2\u00a0 I spent the morning in the clinic doing stock taking and my medical report, and then the afternoon doing washing and logistic planning.\u00c2\u00a0 Half my team is already at SANAE; the rest, including myself, are scheduled for the last flight tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 We have to hope the weather holds, of course.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still aboard the Agulhas, holding station off the ice shelf.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve finished the ramp and unloaded all the heavy cargo.\u00c2\u00a0 Poor weather prevented us from flying yesterday, so the lighter cargo operations had to wait.\u00c2\u00a0 The benefit of the poor weather was that we had very heavy snowfall onboard, with some drifts up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sa-aghulas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}