This Week at Casey 5 June 2009
Here at Casey it is getting darker and you can tell this by the variety of new and exciting activities that people are starting to do to pass the dark hours. Firstly there are the sporty type activities.
Both of our Troy's have started hitting the climbing wall twice a week. They are very good at all the jumping, swinging and hanging action and it has the added bonus of being exciting for everyone – there is never a shortage of hecklers and spectators around in the wallow to criticise or offer helpful advice!
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When it snows there is no shortage of activities. Last week it snowed 30cm overnight. It was mentioned in last week's news but it was so cool that it gets another mention.
With dumps like that everyone likes to get out and about, have a little snow play or throw a snowball or two. Anthony likes to ride his quad and see his beard all frozen up!
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Then there is the high impact full contact extreme sport of knitting. Our chippy Tim has taken to knitting like a duck to water. It helps when someone gets the ball rolling.
It's only a matter of time here at Casey before it is uncool to be seen NOT knitting! We'll eagerly await news of a completed project of Casey's new selection of winter woolly knits!
Tim I'm sure will say it's not a scarf, but a stubbie holder that he is busily toiling away with!!
Tim's knitted stubbie holder takes shape.
Photo: Vicki
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Our BOM crew and a trusty team of volunteers enjoy spending their spare time in the hydro containers. I can see the appeal; it is warm, full of juicy tomatoes and soon will be home to Antarctica's biggest Zucchini!
We are the birds and the bees here.
Photo: Vicki
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Others here on station are beginning to miss the finer things in life back in Australia. It has recently become public knowledge on station that there are only 3 packets of cheese twisties left.
Now normally this wouldn't be a problem because you could just shoot over to the local supermarket and pick up a few packs. Here of course it's a different story. Once the green store is out... it's out till resupply.
If anyone is paying attention... please can you double the order next year??
Liam decided it was time to pay homage to the cheesy cheesy goodness of cheese twisties recently by modifying Wikipedia to reflect how much they are revered here at Casey. In addition to this he thought he would ring the Twisties customer care line to see if anything could be done – say a midwinter air drop – only to find that alas, the Twisties customer care line is only open between the hours of 8am to 4 pm business hours. Better luck next time!
Liam phones the Twisties customer care line
Photo: Cookie
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Rocket our chef likes to pass the dark midwinter time by watching all of us amateurs get involved with food production. Last week we were given pizza bases and toppings and instructions to go for it. The outcome was a feast of amazing pizza creations.
Some people excelled in the task having spent bits of their youth working for other pizza institutions. Others let creativity reign and ended up with extremely thick and tasty (?) concoctions.
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Last but of course not least, desperate times call for desperate measures. In the limited time that the sun is up, intrepid adventurers always make use of the good weather (when it presents itself) and go for a nice long walk out into the wide yonder of the recreation area.
A small group Clive, Troy B and Mark headed off on a fine day to O'Brien's Bay to check out the sea ice and a spectacular ice cave.
The day started off beautifully – only a little bit overcast and snowing gently. It soon deteriorated to just plain ordinary, but despite this our group brought back some tales of beauty and awesome photo's of the snow cave.
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