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The morning finds us still parked at the Riviera of the South in glorious weather conducting resupply operations.
What exactly is resupply? It is essentially a group of ordinary men and women attempting to recreate the Berlin Airlift on ice. We are currently moving cargo off the front hatches of the ship and the temperature controlled containers known as reefers are being lifted off by crane and dispatched into the station where food and supplies to get through the next winter will be laboriously unloaded.
The weather forecast is favourable and our refuelling team is busy setting up and testing all the hoses, pumps and systems that will permit us to begin safely pumping fuel into the station. This operation is the most critical of the entire resupply and will occupy our attention closely for the next 30 to 40 hours.
Meanwhile the ship is almost deserted because we told all the round trippers to go into the station and have some "personal time". Little do they realise that they are about to find themselves trapped in a chain gang shovelling frozen food into the station's capacious freezers.
Nothing comes for free in this life.
Lloyd and Andrew
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A map showing Australia and Antarctica. The map shows the journey of one voyage that has occured in the season, with each route highlighted in a distinct colour.