McMurdo parties, Cape Evans, and some outdoor activities

It's been quite a full-on week this week. Family members from the Erebus tragedy are at base at the moment. They tried to get to the crash site on Friday evening, but the weather prevented them from landing. They'll hopefully try again in the morning before flying out tomorrow (Monday) afternoon. There was a very emotional service held here at base- very intense.

Right, another mix of photos this week. We start with some photos from a birthday party at McMurdo which we crashed cos the drummer in the band is a kiwi!
Then some more skiing ones, just cos I've been doing a fair bit of it.

We spent a night out at Scott's hut from his Terra Nova expedition at Cape Evans. The Antarctic Heritage Trust conservators are there at the moment, so we stayed with them. The vortex generators that I talked about in last years blog haven't worked as well as hoped, so there were also some base staff out for the day fixing them.

They've got a kite out there, so I had a decent play with that- sooooo much fun!

Finally, there's some photos from another wander up Crater Hill.

We're hopefully heading to the Darwin Glacier tomorrow- should be a really good trip. Rachelle is due to head back to NZ on Wednesday, then I'm out to Cape Roberts to help fix and calibrate our broken tide gauge there (it's claiming 0.8m of sea-level rise per month at the moment). Then I'm due to return to NZ sometime around the 10th. So it's all gone pretty bloody quickly really!

Lizzie, Fran, Me, Rachelle, and Lucy