All the scientists are Doctors of something, our resident medical doctors all take an interest in the local wild life. We are probably one of the fittest and most healthy communities on the planet so our medics find other projects to study. Our new wintering Doctor Jenny Dean often walks around the point and she carries her camera. We have sunsets now as winter approaches, and as you can see from the photos this can never be a 'normal' walk. My real role here is to accompany the scientists who study the Antarctic, we are charged with their safety and we also do most of the logistics for their time in the field.
Some trips are easier than others.
This month I was asked to accompany Seglinda Ott, a visiting scientist who needed to have a day on Lagoon Island to study the lichens. The boating trip was fun even though it is not my sort of thing. I don't mind being in the boats, its just the idea of being in the water that really scares me. As the boat could not stay she had to have a companion for the day. It was a fairly easy journey out, slowly navigating the orange inflatable boat through the brash ice floating in the bay.