We had to watch some more videos and get more training today because the areas we are going into are protected areas. Similar to pack it in, pack it out, but we have to worry about diesel and cooking fuel spills, replacing rocks we move, etc. Also the Craig Foy astronaut question, which I already knew the answer to "how do you go to the bathroom".
We will have pee bottles that get emptied into buckets and eventually a drum with other "grey water" - from washing dishes, etc. '. Michelle will get a funnel with her pee bottle. We also will be issued buckets with lids and plastic bags, if that helps explain anything, Craig. This all has to be hauled back via helo to McMurdo Station, and then sent back to NZ or somewhere else for disposal. Nothing is disposed of in Antarctica, everything is sent "off continent". Paper, food waste, everything.
Last night we recieved an exclusive tour of the "Scott Hut". Michelle LaRue, who is on our team and arrived 2 weeks before us, befriended the person in charge of this historic site, which is off-limits, and she agreed to give us a personal tour. This was built by Scott's team that died after reaching the pole. It was not very warm, so subsequent expeditions, including Shackelton and others, used it for storing supplies, because it is near where ships can get to in summer.
In 1916, five stranded sailors used it for shelter for 5 months until winter, when the ice was frozen and they could walk over the froze ice to a Britich camp in the Antarctica Peninsula.
However, 3 of the five couldn't wait, left sooner, and were feared stranded on ice that broke away, perishing.
I'll try to upload some photos later, right now Google is giving me some problems, not allow me to do so.
I'll try top post a description of happy camper survival training later today.
ok, I figured a work-around for uploading photos for now.
Here is Ryan in front of the Scott Hut last night:
A box from the Scott Expedition. The box on the left on the bottom was from a Shakelton expedition:
This is a "seal blubber stove", meaning seal blubber is the fuel:
From on top of Hut Point, looking back. The ice pier is the brown rectangle right behind the hut, ocean vessels dock here with supplies after an ice-breaker comes in. My dorm is the bottom one in the row of brown rectangular buildings in the background:
Looking the other way, a Weddell Seal popped up out of the thin ice to sun himself:
On top of Hut Point is a memorial to the first explorer to die in the area:
We will have pee bottles that get emptied into buckets and eventually a drum with other "grey water" - from washing dishes, etc. '. Michelle will get a funnel with her pee bottle. We also will be issued buckets with lids and plastic bags, if that helps explain anything, Craig. This all has to be hauled back via helo to McMurdo Station, and then sent back to NZ or somewhere else for disposal. Nothing is disposed of in Antarctica, everything is sent "off continent". Paper, food waste, everything.
Last night we recieved an exclusive tour of the "Scott Hut". Michelle LaRue, who is on our team and arrived 2 weeks before us, befriended the person in charge of this historic site, which is off-limits, and she agreed to give us a personal tour. This was built by Scott's team that died after reaching the pole. It was not very warm, so subsequent expeditions, including Shackelton and others, used it for storing supplies, because it is near where ships can get to in summer.
In 1916, five stranded sailors used it for shelter for 5 months until winter, when the ice was frozen and they could walk over the froze ice to a Britich camp in the Antarctica Peninsula.
However, 3 of the five couldn't wait, left sooner, and were feared stranded on ice that broke away, perishing.
I'll try to upload some photos later, right now Google is giving me some problems, not allow me to do so.
I'll try top post a description of happy camper survival training later today.
ok, I figured a work-around for uploading photos for now.
Here is Ryan in front of the Scott Hut last night:
A box from the Scott Expedition. The box on the left on the bottom was from a Shakelton expedition:
This is a "seal blubber stove", meaning seal blubber is the fuel:
From on top of Hut Point, looking back. The ice pier is the brown rectangle right behind the hut, ocean vessels dock here with supplies after an ice-breaker comes in. My dorm is the bottom one in the row of brown rectangular buildings in the background:
Looking the other way, a Weddell Seal popped up out of the thin ice to sun himself:
On top of Hut Point is a memorial to the first explorer to die in the area:
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