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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