Happy Christmas Card!

For anyone who has been involved or has been following the build of Halley, you may enjoy the attached E-Christmas Card that has been sent out by the Architect...i think it was a Christmas Card thought it may have been his suggestions for the names of the modules. Any way it made me smile ...Happy Christmas :-)

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Hacking my Sleep in the land of the insomniac!

I have been here at Halley for over 2 weeks now... and once again as per the last two trips I have a sleep problem.

24 hour sunlight & a reluctancy to waste a second of my time equals a lack of good shut eye. Hopefully then this bedside reading will help send me to Planet Z and then at the very least it will be my snoring that keeps the rest of my pit-room awake and not the seasonal abundance of Vitamin D!

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Home from Sweet Home

Photo 1: The Halley Sign post with Sun Halo and symbol of being on base.

Photo 2: On arrival how the Laws platform (The main platform at Halley VI) looks this season 10/11 almost buried in snow.

Photo 3: The Laws Platform high above ground level as it was back in 07/08 season, highlighting one of the main reasons for the new Halley VI base which can lift itself out the snow..

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The Journey South (Part3 - Onwards to Halley)

Photo 1: The Old School Antarctic Airport Transport

Photo 2: The New School Antarctic Airport Transport

Photo 3: The DC3 Trans-Antarctic Transportation

Photo 4: Boarding the DC3

Photo 5: The view out the window as we fly from Novo towards Halley

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The Journey South (Part 2)

Photo 1: Getting changed mid flight into our Antarctic clothing

Photo 2: One of the flight crew (Navigator)Ia in lower section of nose cone.

Photo 3: Having landed on the Ice at Novo (Russian base) we await our next flight onwards to Halley (British base).

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The Journey South (Part 1)

Photo 1: Boarding Gate B2 at Cape Town International Airport ready to board our plane.

Photo 2: The Russian Ilyushin plane that would fly us from Cape Town to mainland Antarctica.

Photo 3: Inside the Ilyushin receiving our safety briefing..

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Eliot the Coca-Cola Crate Fanman

Cape Town now has it’s very own Coca-Cola crate fanman. The structure, named Elliot after the foreman of the team that built him, was made from 4200 crates and stands 18 meters tall at the V&A Waterfront. Here are a few Photos of him taken from various view points.

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Some more pics from Cape Town

Photo 1: The Ernest Shackleton, part of the British Antarctic Surveys fleet of ship. It sails from Cape Town to the Brunt Ice Shelf through the Weddle Sea the same sea that Ernest Shackleton famously became trapped and escaped.

Photo 2: A pic of Table Top Mountain taken from onboard Shackleton. 

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Some Cape Town Photos

Photo 1 : Cape Town Stadium (built for the 2010 Fifa World Cup)

Photo 2 : Signpost to most of the World including South Pole (but not London)

Photo 3 : Victoria Water Front Stage with local band performing for World Aids Day (a subject close to home in South Africa)

Photo 4 : Camps Bay a few miles up the Coast from the Water Front ( a great place to watch the Sun go down)

Photo 5 : The Victoria Water Front area a safe haven for tourists and a good place to find a hotel.

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Photoblogging this Season

I've been at Halley V on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica now for just over a week and now that I have settled I thought I would do a catch up on events of the last few weeks.

 This year will/should be my last trip to Halley and therfore before I left the UK I decided that I will make a real effort to do a photo-of the experience, and hence justify all the money I spent on Cameras and editing software.
I haven't however invested anytime in learning how to use my camera, which can be seen by this team photo in which I got the timer wrong and also managed to take the photo on the wonk. Thankfully I was able to do some post production on it to make it look artistic and almost planned.

The photo was taken on our first full day in Cape Town, just before we embarked on a stroll around the Waterfront area. In the photo are five of my party of 12 who where travelling to Antarctica to join the other 90 people already on base.Thats me the hairy looking one on the far right followed to my left by Andrew Tallach then Les Jones, Jason Devoll and Rich Parker.

 An intresting fact relating to this photo is that not long after it was taken we all got Sunburnt...spooky!

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Google Map of Brunt Ice Shelf

After alomost a week of travelling and thosands of miles of flying I once again find myself in the middle of nowhere. Luckly now with the power of google maps and the blogging platform called Posterous I can share "nowhere" with the click of a button, With modern sites like Facebook and tools like Posterous you just dont feel as isolated as I guesss it did in years gone by,only ever being a click away from those youve left behind.

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