Rambling Rauers Tour 2012 Part 2

hello everybody and sorry about the delay for the Rambling Rauers Tour Part 2. the last week has been quite random; all of us ended up having a 5-night binge, no, celebration cum farewell, because we kept thinking that it was Joe and Cathie's last night (they eventually flew off on Saturday morning, after having been told that they were flying off the Monday before). we've had new people on station now, so far they have all been Canadians and are pilots and engineers of fixed-wing aircrafts. the first time i saw a new face, i baulked, got all shy, tongue-tied and shit, fled away from the bar and down to the kitchen and realised that i have lost all my abilities to interact with strangers.

ANYWAY, without further ado, here is part two. (i am so poetic sometimes, it scares me le sigh).


before arriving at the Hop Island hut, we poked around Filla Island, which had a little two-man apple (although, here wrongly named as the Hop Island Hut). Filla and Hop Islands are primarily used over summer by penguin biologists for their research work into penguins and snow petrels.


exterior and interior of the Hop Island Hut. It isn't a hut like the ones we have in the Vestfold Hills, but more like a spaceship, or as someone has mentioned, like a giant Smartie. sleeps three comfortably, very spacious, and while we were there, we had a fourth person sleeping on the floor while two more tented it in the Polar Pyramid.


PENIS ROCK! this delectable geological artwork of Nature was stumbled upon only a few hundred meters away from the Hop Island smartie. Adam pointed it out, how nice. all of us spent the next day exploring Hop Island, observing the penguins and taking in the cliffs that surrounded the island.


nah, moar seals, now with added Baby, just for you.


one more look at Brown Glacier before heading back to Davis.


that's me next to one of hundreds of crevasses that we had to cross. They typically look like this, covered with a snow bridge to lure unsuspecting wanderers into their icy-blue depths. This one was wider than me (as you can tell) but it was in no way the biggest we'd seen.


Back on the Vestfolds side of the seaice, one holey iceberg to cap off the journey!

The End.