Life Beyond the Beaker

BOLS...I'm currently completing Bills of Landing paperwork to send all of the samples that I've collected over the past year back to the UK! I've only got three weeks left here at Rothera, so I'm busy packing, enjoying my Antarctic experience and trying to lots of diving to collect animals for the transport aquarium. I am getting on the RRS Shackleton the second week of April, from there we are heading to the Falklands to drop most of the summer Rotherans off whilst we leave 22 Rotherans to winter. I am then heading to Montevideo on the ship for 2 weeks where we are doing a crew change. Then 3 weeks sail home, so I should be home in June! Not sure how I feel about entering the real world yet, fellow winterers that are already home have told me that it's been a hard transition from having to pay for things, busy traffic and lots of people...it's going to be interesting. Full girl crew on the dive vessel  Tom and Julie kindly took Me and JenDoc up Le...

 At Rothera we have a major incident PRACTICE, I must reiterate the word practice. This is to test the base on how it would react to an incident all the way down from the station leader, to the communications tower to the first aiders on base, fire trained personnel and all the other little jobs that fit into assisting with an emergency. Station leader Mike Brian telling everyone what to do via the radio   Everyone needs to be accounted for so we do what's called a muster where everyone gets their name ticked off the list.     The fire truck was called to the fake scene   The container was symbolizing a plane crash, the yellow spoke is pretending to be the fire   Kate with paint all down her leg as a burn. She spoke in Spanish the whole time just to confuse everyone   Practicing the technique with the BA kit     Testing the use of the hose   All in all it was great practice for everyone on ...

A blog of photos to show you some of the wildlife we get around the Antarctic Peninsula! Elephant seal Gentoo  Southern Giant Petral Fur Seal Leopard seal Leopard seal    Adelie Penguin colony Adelie   I've put an iceberg on the blog just to say that when you're not looking at the wildlife you are staring at icebergs!