Earth Hour 2008
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Hello from Casey,
Another week rolls by at Casey boasting sunshine and little or no winds, temperatures have been getting lower with -15 to -18 at night and up to -10 to -7 throughout the day.
The weekend came around quickly with Friday drinks held in the E.V.S. prepared by the fire chief and his two deputies, Joel, Simon and Dan.
Bob and Brownie enjoying Friday night drinks
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Coinciding with Friday drinks is the brewing of beer, which takes place in the brew room by our expert brew team. The clean crisp taste of Brown's draught is a winner.
Brownie and Wayne making Brown's draught
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Wayne preparing bottles
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Saturday brought Earth Hour, with all of Casey folk participating. The evening unfolded with Champagne cocktails with Brad's watermelon sorbet at Splinters.
Splinters
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Proceeding to the Odeon we watched a short presentation of Earth Hour footage prepared by Dominic featuring our philosophical leader Bob explaining how Casey was taking part in Earth Hour and how we conserve our energy and resources on Antarctic stations.
Off went the lights as we sat down to a candle lit dinner and a glass or two of red, the evening was enjoyed by all.
Earth Hour dinner at Casey
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Sunday was a day of leisure and rest with most on station relaxing, we found Heleen and Dan (Torvill and Dean) skating the afternoon away on the frozen melt stream at the rear of the Red Shed.
Torvill and Dean
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Trades have been busy working away with the Dieso's servicing machinery, and loading Priscilla to her estimated carrying capacity for the ferrying of passengers to Wilkins aerodrome, and test driving to Wilkins.
Brad under the crane
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Pricilla loaded up
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Brownie has nearly completed the extension of the gym, with some finishing touches to go.
'The plans were the right way round when I drew them!'
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Craig and Wayne; completing site services pipe work,
Craig carrying out electro fusion welding
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Wayne shrink wrapping joins in pipe
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Monthly checks, maintaining water production and water quality in the tank house.
Wayne checking water filtration in the tank house
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April Fools day caught us with talk of Mawson sinking a Hagg, and then we realised what day it was, when we came in for morning tea and no cutlery was to be seen in mess ... it had disappeared!
For this week, VNJ Casey out.
