Friday 24 February 2012

A head for heights!

Here's a pic of me checking the calibration of the wind vane for Mawson AWS yesterday.
Yes Mum, I'm wearing a harness, and tied on securely.  I'm only about 10m up. 
It was the most beautiful afternoon, with no wind, clear sky, sunshine, and a balmy -5-ish degrees, penguins playing and feeding in the water nearby, seals swimming past.



I went for a walk up to the plataeu with Dave, Julie, Clint and Josef later that evening, pics to follow tomorrow.

We are now in final steps of preparation for the resupply operations.  The Ship is waiting off the coast to the East for a major low pressure system to go through.  We are bracing for two days of blizzard, with winds of over 75 knots, and visibility down to probably only a couple of metres...

1 comment:

  1. Hi Rolf
    Did you and Dave draw straws to work out who climbed the mast?! Not a fun job..
    Now I see that you're experiencing winds gusting up to 96knots, so that mast must be nearly bent in half!
    Cheers
    PeterS

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