Life on Casey Station with the carpentry A-team
Life on Casey station has been an incredible adventure for us here as a carpentry team, from the vast amount of different scopes of work, to being able to go on weekend trips to huts and explore as much of Antarctica as we’ve been permitted to explore.
Our Team consists of Lewshang, Big sexy, B-rad, Tas-man and Haydo’s and we’re all about one team one dream. Our team comes from many different backgrounds of construction as well as different parts of Australia so all of this adds to the perfect combination of an elite team that we are.
We’ve been able to kick goals since we’ve been here in both our project teams and also our maintenance team and have made significant progress which we have all been stoked about.
Here's some highlights that we all think were some great times. Sit back, relax and enjoy.
Christmas weekend
It all started as a still morning, with excitement in the air. The sounds of joyful pitter pattering from the expeditioners was heard in the morning by all.
The day started off with a obligatory station game of cricket in the morning at 9am, where sixes were hit and ducks were bowled all while Christmas tunes played from some fat speakers on a Polaris.
We had brunch in the mess at 11am, which our amazing chefs whipped up, from eggs benny to jam doughnuts and all the way to fruit platters as well. They always impress me every single day.
12:30 rolls on, and you know the rules, it's Santa’s sly and secret Santa gifts in the Wallow. We had Santa himself and all the way to the Grinch and some elves cruised in on the Christmas Hagg, then up to the wallow where Santa, Missus Clause and the Elves handed out pressies to everyone.
4pm has come, it's cocktails and catch-ups in the bar from Shirely island ice teas to an Espresso martini called get Railzed (named after a plumber's nickname). We had an amazing team making them all evening for everyone, they did a truly inspirational job.
The almighty time has come, it's 5pm, dinner in the Wallow. Everyone helped out from setting tables up to hanging multiple flags up in the mess displayed around the beautiful food the chefs had made for everyone.
Everything we set up perfectly. The evening and food was incredible and it was truly one of the best Christmases I've had given we had a belated Christmas and away from family and friends. The community here and friendships made have made this a very special time.
- Lewan.
Robbo’s Work Trip Bonanza
The team recently had a very successful overnight work trip to Robbo’s Hut. The trip began with us loading up the green hag with our tools, materials and a team of eager carpenters.
The trip took a bit over an hour with a couple of pit stops along the way to check out the incredible scenery as well as giving the boys in back of the hagg a break from the confines of being crammed between boxes of drills, saws and pee drums leaving little space for the workers.
Rolling into Robbos we jumped straight into action, unloading all the tools and began sanding the weathered Antarctic deck which was well overdue for some TLC. We finished the day with a walk down to the water to watch the penguins migrate back to their nests. We were even lucky enough to see some chicks on the way.
We then headed back to camp where we indulged in some left over tucker from the catch and kill fridge from the night before, washing it down with a glass of red. The night's sleep was a bit rough with a symphony of snoring alternating between the 4 boys but we wouldn’t let it ruin our trip.
Day two we had a quick breakfast and a well-needed cup of coffee, packed up the hagg and began work inside the hut. We sanded up all the internal window reveals, finished with some new oil giving them a new lease on life. We re-laid some tiles on the toilet floor to make a bit more sanitary. We finally finished with oiling the deck with some high quality oil, ready now to last another 10 years. Very content with our works we jumped back in hagg and headed back to base already planning our next work trip adventure.
- Banjo.
