{"id":950,"date":"2009-12-09T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2009-12-09T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:25:42","slug":"depot-work-and-sediment-sampling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/depot-work-and-sediment-sampling\/","title":{"rendered":"Depot work and sediment sampling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPenguin on monday night with Claire and Adam<\/p>\n

\"boatatanchorage\"It was a busy morning at the boatshed yesterday as we knew the weather would get bad today so we pulled some work forward and took two visiting Malaysian scientists out to Anchorage to collect some soil samples. The scientists are a professor and her masters student – Felix and Irene. Their FA was Ben Tibbets and myself and Danny decided to take the boat together.
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\nWe landed on Anchorage amoungst lots of elephant seals which although smelly weren’t that active. However, the skuas were very active so the best thing to do was carry a spade above your head to stop getting attacked by them. <\/p>\n

While Danny went looking for the emergency depot to get a GPS co-ordinate and the scientists and FA went off to get soil I stayed at the hut and did some work on it. I took a fully inventory of the contents and also re did the guy wires and dug out the solar panel and a bunch of wires from the snow. It was sunny so I was just in trousers and a light fleece. It was therapeutic work which I enjoyed being out on an island with just the birds and seals surrounding me and great visibility across to all the moutains on the peninsula. When I was done with the work I climbed the hill and took a few photos. <\/p>\n

We got back in time for lunch and then continued the normally boat maintenance in the afternoon as Mel wasn’t able to go diving as she had an experiment going on. I thought it would be an early evening however, I got involved at the sewing loft trying to repair the industrial sewing machine that someone broke. It really is needed for getting stuff made on base so as I didn’t finish completing it until well into dinner time I will go back this afternoon. <\/p>\n

After dinner Adam, Claire and I went up to Vals and did a few runs. Claire was excited to break in her new skis. With the snow melting so fast it was a bit icy on Vals and it is almost getting to blue ice on the ramp. There was a group doing field training – those that just came in on the Dash – so we stopped in at the Caboose and had cuppa before heading home at 10:30pm. Another great day down south!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Penguin on monday night with Claire and Adam It was a busy morning at the boatshed yesterday as we knew the weather would get bad today so we pulled some work forward and took two visiting Malaysian scientists out to Anchorage to collect some soil samples. The scientists are a professor and her masters student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}