All of the snow had melted by the time I woke. At the midnight meal, my co-worker and I delivered a fresh salad to her husband who is stuck working at the power plant and unable to leave. He normally works at the water plant but has been moved to the power plant due to staffing issues.
The icebreaker boat is right close, it's scheduled to dock at noon tomorrow. It's fun to watch the boat work. It backs up, gets a running start, skids up onto the ice in front of it and the falls through the ice, breaking it all up as it goes. As I understand, now we wait for the heavy winds to blow the ice outta here. I think it's all kind of fascinating. People boarded this ship somewhere in the northern hemisphere where ice exists that needs broken, drove the thing down and over the equator, all while the seasons were changing. They break up our wee bit of ice then turn around and go back over the equator and to break some ice on the other end of the world. The ship is especially noisy and seems like it would be super crazy bumpy as it breaks up the ice. It would be a hard life breaking up the ice, but maybe the trips back and forth across the equator wouldn't be so bad.
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A brief, day-to-day account of my summer spent in Antarctica.
2 comments:
I saw something about icebreakers on the Discovery Channel and I thought it was entertaining that the way they operate is as simple as it is.
i like how you use southern talk "right close" and then you use your scottish talk "wee bit" all in the same paragraph. are you picking up any lingo from your current location? you can add antarctica talk to your southern-northern-canadian-scotch accent.
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