APECS OCEANIA IN ANTARCTICA
Unfortunately, I’m still in Casey
station, waiting for my turn to get into the ABN. It’s been frustrated
week with waiting game for good weather to fly. This delay is all
because of the weather, we
cannot do anything. That is really frustrating.
Finally, first planes flew to the
ABN this morning with Mark, Simon, Malcolm and some important Cargos
and second flights with David, Jerome and Trevor just before lunch with
more Cargo. We allow to
sending only 6 people at first day due to considering cold temperature,
strong wind (-29°C with 15kts on Wed) and high altitude environment. These members are highly experienced crew to carry on science project;
drilling 3 ice cores and firn air sampling.
It was exciting moment when the
first crews left after 2.5 weeks waiting. Mark was surrounding by
several media crews and they were taking photo of him really close up. A
media crew put a mike on Mark
and following him with video. Put all personnel stuffs in bus, farewell
to rest of members, some video interview and photo session. And ready
to go.
Hopefully everything goes well
continuously, and rest of us can get into the field soon. I don’t need
Christmas present, so please give us few days of good weather! All my
fingers and toes are crossed!
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