The Voyage down was a rolly affair with large swells and re-arragenged cabins. An abudance of bird life was a welcome sight as we only got to see our first ice berg on the day before flyoff. It was a long flight for the squirel helicopters but a bloody spectatular one.
Theship ,( Aurora Australis )had beeen punching though the ice for a good 48 hours and made little progress , so at 79 nm the call was made to fly off, so it was up at 0530 to check the weather then into the first of 3 different helo's on board to fly in to Casey.
It was like I'd never left! Then it was hit eh ground running. As Im now working with aviation , my job was a busy one for the next 4 days.\, Day one was a 15 hour affair , then day two was a bit more civilised with 10 hours knocking that day on the head.
The floowing morning looked promising , but a impending blizzard put work to rest for the day , well apart from tying the helos to the heli pad!!
It blew up to a max. of 65 knots and was blowing snow.
Day four was a get the out going winterers and their bags out.
All went well and we finished up at 4pm .
Today was spent checking out the skiway for the possibility of the fixed wing plane flying in shortly.
It will be good to do nothing tommorow!!!!