October 29th

I ate dinner-breakfast with three strangers. Two of them design, build, fix, etc. the vehicle pictured. They are just in Antarctica for 7 days to service the 10 "Pisten Bullys" on the continent. They were fun to chat with, the one had started his career with a job that was mostly to cause avalanches. The third guy was on about his 20th season in Antarctica, he now works with precision GPS stuff and among other things is measuring how much glaciers travel in a year and how much the rocks near glaciers move, which tells them something about how much of the glacier is being lost every year. I enjoyed the conversations.

From what I understand, the last of the folks that spent all winter at the South Pole are here at the station tonight en route home. There also seems to be a large Asian population that arrived from somewhere and are en route to somewhere else.

After work I went for walk around town, which included a visit to the local greenhouse. They had tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and about 10 different herbs, all growing in water. One of my coworkers kept picking and eating the cherry tomatoes when nobody was looking. I very much enjoyed the greenhouse hammock.