We're outa PA in a couple hours. Never made it to Fuerto Bulnes.
Couldn't get dibs on the company truck yesterday. Anyhow, I will
try to email you from KY. Maybe. The farm may be even farther
off the beaten track than Antarctica from an internet perspective.
Right now we're sitting in the Raytheon Apartment, chillin'.
Sarah is watching a wonderful Chilean TV channel called "Fashion
TV" they have down here. Nothing but models, 24 hours a
day.
Andy
Nov. 23rd, 2003
Well we're still in PA. The ship leaves later today and Sarah and I fly out Tuesday to go to Kentucky.We were going to go up
to Torres
del Paine, the big national park down here, but there are so
many monster cruise ships about that we failed utterly to get a
rental car. Plus the travel department issued us super restricted
tickets, and it would
have cost us $400 just to extend our stay down here by 2 days.
So, we decided to work another day, and maybe monday we'll take
the company truck and drive down the coast a ways for a day trip.
There's an old pioneer settlement type place about an hour away
called Fort
Bulnes (Fort Famine) that's supposed to be pretty cool,
and
a penguin colony where they live in burrows in these windswept
grass and sand dunes. Weird. Anyhow, we get back to Denver on Dec
3rd.
Later,
Andy
Sarah at the Polish base Arctowski.
Nov. 15th, 2003
Great day today. We ran about 8 loads of cargo ashore to
set up a field camp for some penguin scientists. These guys
get to spend the next 3 weeks tromping all over the island
counting nests. We had great weather, sunshine and no wind
at all. Brent and I tromped up a hill and tried to get radio
communications set up with Palmer station but there were
too many mountains in the way. Oh, well, back to the satellites.
Gentoo penguins and the Gould in the background.
The best part of the trip! Beer on shore!
This lovely couple came right up the hill and checked out our
radio tower.
They're very curious and not afraid of humans at all. They
treat us like big lumbering
seals that might bump into them
but would never really try to hurt them.
This is the camp after 2 loads of gear. 3 people stay here
for 3 weeks. The
hut isn't part of the camp, it's just the remains of an old
British base.
