Lots of people have asked if it has been worth it coming to Antarctica, its only been 14 weeks so its probably a little bit early to say but I have learnt one thing, the benefit of taking time out. At home life is a constant rush; from one adventure to the next, one holiday…
Category: Antarctica
The growing darkness
I am cautious about a lot of things; Number one is water or more correctly standing on a stone fish, getting eaten by a shark or anything that brushes my foot in ankle deep water. Number two food that repeats for hours like red onion, beer, capsicum and Fray Bentos pies Number three tea breath,…
Being enough
It’s my three month anniversary of being in Antarctica and it feels like it has passed super quickly. I have seen some amazing things over the last few months. I’ve flown across oceans full of floating ice-bergs. Sat next to penguins and seals and watched in awe as pods of wild orca’s cruise past. I’ve…
Salami Antarctica Style
The days are getting shorter at Mawson, everyday 15 minutes a day of light is yielding to night and the moon is still seen high in the sky in the afternoon. The weather is also getting colder, this week -30 with wind chill. It is hideously cold. The windows are triple glazed but there are…
ANZAC day
It is the ANZAC day long weekend, and this year I can’t remain completely unknowledgeable or ambivalent because I have to take the dawn service. I never truly engaged with the ANZAC story or really gave it much thought until a few years ago when two events happened, first I moved to the middle east…
Learning to talk boy
I have never had a lot to do with men, they have always been kind of mysterious and slightly odd. I went to an all girls school for most of my adolescents and then I went to Uni and studied nursing were the majority of the other students and lecturers were girls. Since I left Uni…
Hydroponic happiness
So last week, it all started to feel a little bit like ground hog day. Get up, get dressed, go to office, go back to room. 12 weeks in and I was starting to question myself which is kind of unfortunate considering that there is over 6 months to go. Probably wasn’t helped by the…
Climbing a mountain in clown shoes
This week I climbed a Mountain!!!! Now admittedly it was kind of small, probably more of a hill at only 883 metres but I was dead impressed with myself as I sat at the top and surveyed the Plateau. I like to think that I am the outdoorsy type but deep down I know that…
3 little penguins
So the sea ice has finally formed and all we can see in every direction is white, the ocean has disappeared for the next few months. It is still a little bit thin for us to walk on and ‘breaths’ like it is alive, as a wave comes in it inhales and floats up and…
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