{"id":70,"date":"2008-02-06T22:35:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T22:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/base\/brief-update\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T22:35:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T22:35:26","slug":"brief-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Brief update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy time again, as the summer season draws to a close.\u00c2\u00a0 At the coast, the weather is worsening steadily, although we are still having very pleasant weather at SANAE IV.\u00c2\u00a0 The warmer weather and rougher seas created some trouble at our bukta on the ice-shelf &#8211; our ramp has been declared unsafe due to the deteriorating ice conditions, and so we were forced to divert all cargo that couldn&#8217;t be flown onto the ship 300km overland to Neumayer&#8217;s loading area.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the summer personnel have now been flown off, leaving only the winter team and a few other essential personnel at our base.\u00c2\u00a0 With all this action, I&#8217;ve had little time to write, but I have used the improved bandwidth to add some pictures to my article &#8220;Icebound,&#8221; under the SA Agulhas category.\u00c2\u00a0 As always, there&#8217;s more good stuff to come!\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also got an updated telephone number at the base, so haul out your address-books jot this down:\u00c2\u00a0 <skype:span context=\"+2721 405 9428\" durex=\"1007\" onmouseout=\"javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,0,'0',false,16,'');\" onclick=\"javascript:doRunCMD('call','0',null,0);return skype_tb_stopEvents();\" title=\"Call this phone number in South Africa with Skype: +27214059428\" onmouseover=\"javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,1,'0',false,16,'');\" id=\"softomate_highlight_0\" onmousedown=\"javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,2,'0',false,16,'');return skype_tb_stopEvents();\" oncontextmenu=\"javascript:skype_tb_SwitchDrop(this,'0','sms=0');return skype_tb_stopEvents();\" class=\"skype_tb_injection\" onmouseup=\"javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,1,'0',false,16,'');return skype_tb_stopEvents();\"><skype:span style=\"background-image: url('C:\\Users\\Ross\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Low\\__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache\\e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506\\static\\inactive_a.compat.stat.w16.gif')\" title=\"This is a South Africa phone number. The country code cannot be changed.\" id=\"skype_tb_droppart_0\" class=\"skype_tb_imgA\"><skype:span style=\"background-image: url('C:\\Users\\Ross\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Low\\__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache\\e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506\\static\\famfamfam\/ZA.gif')\" id=\"skype_tb_img_f0\" class=\"skype_tb_imgFlag\"><\/skype:span><\/skype:span><skype:span id=\"skype_tb_img_s0\" class=\"skype_tb_imgS_stat\"><\/skype:span><skype:span id=\"skype_tb_text0\" class=\"skype_tb_injectionIn\"><skype:span id=\"skype_tb_innerText0\" class=\"skype_tb_innerText\">+2721\u00c2\u00a0405\u00c2\u00a09428<\/skype:span><\/skype:span><skype:span id=\"skype_tb_img_r0\" class=\"skype_tb_imgR\"><\/skype:span><\/skype:span>.\u00c2\u00a0 Normal South African rates apply.\u00c2\u00a0 Our new fax line is <skype:span context=\"+2721 405 9432\" durex=\"1007\" onmouseout=\"javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,0,'1',false,16,'');\" onclick=\"javascript:doRunCMD('call','1',null,0);return skype_tb_stopEvents();\" title=\"Call this phone number in South Africa with Skype: +27214059432\" onmouseover=\"javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,1,'1',false,16,'');\" id=\"softomate_highlight_1\" onmousedown=\"javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,2,'1',false,16,'');return skype_tb_stopEvents();\" oncontextmenu=\"javascript:skype_tb_SwitchDrop(this,'1','sms=0');return skype_tb_stopEvents();\" class=\"skype_tb_injection\" onmouseup=\"javascript:skype_tb_imgOnOff(this,1,'1',false,16,'');return skype_tb_stopEvents();\"><skype:span style=\"background-image: url('C:\\Users\\Ross\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Low\\__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache\\e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506\\static\\inactive_a.compat.stat.w16.gif')\" title=\"This is a South Africa phone number. The country code cannot be changed.\" id=\"skype_tb_droppart_1\" class=\"skype_tb_imgA\"><skype:span style=\"background-image: url('C:\\Users\\Ross\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Low\\__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache\\e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506\\static\\famfamfam\/ZA.gif')\" id=\"skype_tb_img_f1\" class=\"skype_tb_imgFlag\"><\/skype:span><\/skype:span><skype:span id=\"skype_tb_img_s1\" class=\"skype_tb_imgS_stat\"><\/skype:span><skype:span id=\"skype_tb_text1\" class=\"skype_tb_injectionIn\"><skype:span id=\"skype_tb_innerText1\" class=\"skype_tb_innerText\">+2721\u00c2\u00a0405\u00c2\u00a09432<\/skype:span><\/skype:span><skype:span id=\"skype_tb_img_r1\" class=\"skype_tb_imgR\"><\/skype:span><\/skype:span>.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago we were treated to out first sunset in months.\u00c2\u00a0 Although the sun only dipped behind the mountains for a few minutes, it is the first time we have seen it below the horizon since mid-December.\u00c2\u00a0 Each &#8220;night&#8221; it is gone for a little longer, but at midnight we still have as much light as a heavily overcast day back home.\u00c2\u00a0 It is harbringer, however, of the months of darkness that await us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/firstgoodsunset.jpg\" title=\"FirstSunset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/firstgoodsunset.jpg\" alt=\"FirstSunset\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>First sunset &#8211; the peaks on the skyline are (left to right) Lorentzenpiggen, Grunehogna, Istind<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy time again, as the summer season draws to a close.\u00c2\u00a0 At the coast, the weather is worsening steadily, although we are still having very pleasant weather at SANAE IV.\u00c2\u00a0 The warmer weather and rougher seas created some trouble at our bukta on the ice-shelf &#8211; our ramp has been declared unsafe due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}