Weather summary: Another bright and sunny day with very little wind, the slight hint of a southerly katabatic wind started at around 21.30 tonight.
Today's activities: We started the day with a group meeting in the Sorensen to chat about the next few days as the first arrival of L'Astrolabe is getting closer. Living arrangements are now 'in house'. The tents have been pulled down, so tonight will be the first time the new bedroom is occupied. Although with the weather so nice I am taking the opportunity to bivvy out in the lee of the rocks across from the hut.
We took the inflatable zodiac out for one last today run before deflating it. We paddled out to the new tide gauge to download the first set of data. Back at the Sorensen Steve began giving the Honda quad bikes their annual service. Meanwhile personal items were packed up with other cargo and transported up to the helicopter pick up point. All of our rubbish and recyclables were also strapped into cage pallets awaiting their trip to the ship.
Anne spent the afternoon at Mawson's Hut using the 1meter framing square to do some trials on plotting the artefact scatter north of the hut, as a method for recording the area.
This evening set up a ply table on the snow west of the hut and enjoyed the picturesque view of ice bergs and the Mackellar Islets, while devouring a delicious curry prepared by Michelle, to wash it all down we had a bottle of champagne that the team won at the trivia contest on the Orion yesterday.
Tomorrow we will finalise the packing for our first cargo fly off which could start on Thursday.
Warm wishes from the MHF team
Peter McCabe Field Leader
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