Thursday 20 March 2014

Signy, Deception and Rothera

It has been a busy 10 days. We successfully shut down the base at Signy for the Winter. Despite having a night on DP with winds gusting 87kts.
   It was a bouncy trip to the peninsula then down to Deception Island for a visit and a chance to stretch the legs then the passed few days we have been at Rothera, doing cargo work and dropping 'concrete mattresses' on some underwater piping to protect it from the ice in winter.
   All the passengers will be on board tonight then we will leave first thing in the morning to head back to Stanley, saying goodbye to Antarctica for another season.

Iced up f'c'sle
Old Whaling station at Deception

Old British hangar

Vessel alongside Biscoe Wharf-Rothera

Rothera Base


Elephant seals



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