{"id":896,"date":"2009-12-03T17:17:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T01:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2009-12-03T17:17:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T01:17:54","slug":"in-search-of-penguin-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/in-search-of-penguin-shit\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Penguin Poo…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SFYC\" SFYC burgee at Fossil Bluff Fuel Depot<\/a> Lat. 71\u00b0 20? S, Long. 68\u00b0 17? W<\/p>\n

So it is Thursday and I had on of the coolest experiences of my life on monday and haven’t had the time to write about it. I flew a twin otter for 5 hours on monday out of the 9 hours of flight time. That’s right I actually flew the plane \ud83d\ude42 and I am now in love with flying it is so similar to sailing. At some points we were 200 feet above the ice.. Tomorrow I am going out again if the weather is good enough. <\/p>\n

So Henry here are pictures of Aunty Ash flying the plane!
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I spent the morning from 7am shifting three container loads of food into the food store most of the boxes were 30kg each so I was glad to get out of it and go flying. We left at 10:30am from Rothera and it was the most beautiful flying day of the season according to my pilot Doug. Fitted to the planes underbody we had a massive SLR camera and were tasked to go take pictures of an Emperor penguin colony the other side of the Antarctic Peninsula and also some pictures of sea ice. The project is based around the finding of penguin colonies using satellite imagery which was announced in June this year. <\/a>
\n\"magiccamera\" The very large view finder of the camera under our plane! <\/p>\n

We stopped first at Fossil Bluff <\/a>which is a fuel depot which I will be sent to man sometime this season. Tony who is down there this week is Rothera’s electrician and he joked that the best job he had ever had was one of a fuel attendant! It really is a beautiful place to be.
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After refuelling we took off for the other side of the peninsula to the colony which had been found using satellite images. I had been told by the guys who were going to Halley that I would miss out on seeing Emperor Penguins well I didn’t I just saw them from 2000 feet!
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We were meant to fly north to get more pictures of sea ice however, the cloud cover came down and we headed back to Fossil Bluff for more fuel and for a cup of tea at the melon hut.
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By the time we got back to base it was 8:30pm and time for a late dinner and then I headed up the hill to camp at the caboose to finish off an amazing day down south!<\/p>\n

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\nOne last picture for Henry – the big plane – Dash 7 in the hanger.
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