tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10134052785589705992026-09-07T15:28:42.145+10:00A blog about my travels to the deep south with the Australian Antarctic Division...Micky Geehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05805671787162476233noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013405278558970599.post-35911361961204844682016-11-17T01:25:00.000+10:002016-11-17T01:25:27.050+10:00

Hello friends, its been a while, I know its been quite busy here and im trying to get this one in before it gets kaotic. So what's been going on you ask, lots and where to start. Now im going to apologize now for what your going to read as its going to seem a little rushed as lots more is going on but ill get to that later. So i've always wanted to spend a birthday down here but as a summering

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Hello Friends, Well it's now all official I'll be staying on for summer so that means you have another 6-7 months of blogs which should keep you all entertained. Starting out as a Summer Plant Operator, turning into a Wintering Dieso and now i'm jumping the fence again and going back to science. I'll be working on a project with a bunch of guys doing stuff ive never done and i'm really excited

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Hello Friends, been another jam packed couple weeks since my last entry. Let's start with the good stuff first then it's going to flow a little down hill from there..........literally then it will get better again. So last weekend 2 groups departed to get out of the big smoke of Davis Station. One group consisted of Dazza, Ali, Dr John and Ladge and they went to Bandits. Well I’m not

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Hello friends Its been a busy couple week since my last post so this post is more pics than me jibber jabbering on.  So the week before last 4 of us including myself went up to woop woop to retrieve some machines. There was 2 Prinoth snow groomers which we use over summer to make the skiways and a Skid Steer  (Bob Cat but with tracks). Planning had taken place the week before and all

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Hello Friends, first thing first i'd like to apologize to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Craig our Senior Weather Observer and Aaron our Meteorology Technician and you for misleading you in my last entry. The clouds in my last entry were not Noctilucent but in fact they were Nacreous Clouds. Please forgive me...... SO that in mind now I guess I need to explain what Nacreous clouds. They

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Hello friends well mid winters is upon us, and back in the real world mid winters celebrations have started this weekend with a ANARE club (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) dinner in Hobart on the weekend. To many this time of the year means nothing at all but to us it's a special time. Special as it means the winter solstice has passed and the sun that has been missing from

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Hello Friends well here again and lots been happening in the weeks since my last entry into the world or BLOG. Last week I was talking about the real person in charge of the station and one person didn't agree with me. Young Steve from Casey, well you'll be happy to know i've spoken to the Chef at Casey and he will now be on dehydrated meals for the rest of the season, sorry Steve! I also got

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Hello Friends, first thing it first this week I received my 300th follower on my Absolute Antarctica Facebook page which I'm stoked about. All seemed to happen quite quickly too as although I've had the blog running for sometime I only had the idea to make the page as I look at so much different stuff all the time some of you guys might be interested in seeing what I actually look at. Anyway

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Hello friends, decided to do a little picture blog in this one as I've been taking some good shots, so not MUCH writing but more pictures of current events. This week Monday the moon came up and it was magnificent and almost felt like you could reach out and touch it.... Pic Michael Goldstein About 9pm on Thursday night Aaron (MET Tech looking after Bureau Of Metrology stuff) came to my room

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Hi Friends I know 2 in two days but today has special meaning to me both as an Australian and as a Antarctic Expeditionar. You think about all the family many of us have that were involved in the and the many that we have lost in all the wars its frightening. Antarctica has a link to to many of the wars as expeditioners and being Australian many returned from their time and signed up to do their

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Hello friends, well you've almost caught up to current events but not quite. The season continues giving in a not so good way but more about that a little later. Firstly it took some time and still is to a certain degree to realise I was going to be staying on for winter. For me it was going to take me a different mind set and a total change in pace to make it. I needed to slow down or i would

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Hello Friends, well after last weeks blog you wouldn't think things could get any more interesting could you. Well wrong, very wrong. But first think first Happy Easter, I sit here on what would have normally been Hot Cross bun day for me in my past life as a Baker/Pastrycook. Yesterday I made 30 just for station compared to the 16000 we use to make. Pic Michael Goldstein Dont think I did a

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Hello friends well this one is going to be a difficult one to write in some ways but before I get to the difficult bit ill fill you in on all that happened before it. So in continuation on from last week the ship arrived 13th November 2015 after a particularly smooth voyage. Actually the smoothest by far, spent many days on deck soaking up as for sure I though we would cop it bad as we had it so

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Well hello Friends I know its been a while between drinks but stuff has got in the way, yep life and its been a hard couple years. That being said life is now beginning to normalise, as much as they can I mean you should know me better than that by now. Normal is anything but what I am and the life I lead or have lead since I begun my travels South. But THINGS JUST GOT REAL however I'm going to

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Hello Friends, so after getting over the resupply I found out that I needed to refresh my survival training. Now this is a box that needed ticking. Kind of frustrating as i did complete survival training in Hobart last year for Macquarie Island. Apparently Macca field training doesn't transfer to the continent. A little silly if you ask me as its really no different with the exception that

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Well hello friends, Here we are again for another adventure south, this time back to Davis Station. In my last blog it was a little rushed and at the time along with being rather inebriated. Rush as I was only hours away from getting onto a tourist boat to go home via Christchurch NZ. Last season was full of extremes as Macquarie Island is a place that I never thought it would be

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Hello friends, So what am I going to cover in my last blog I know its come a little early but I'll get to that a little later. You might remember in THIS blog when Fridgy and myself went to Bauer Bay for a weekend. Well while we as i explained in that blog we spent a couple hours sitting quietly looking at the Royal Penguin Rookery. Well while there we noticed a adult Royal with a stainless

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Well hello friends, Been a BIG couple weeks, so where to begin........ Going to do it in reverse as I'm sure your thinking.......circumnavigation??????  Now this only happened yesterday and since we have been here the weather hasn't been such to enable us to do this. The West Coast of Macca can be quite treacherous then you add a 4.5m Inflatable and it becomes interesting! However it

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Hello Friends, Here we go people the pics are going to be coming thick and fast this time, plus a little BS from me of course. Last weekend Fridgy and myself got off station for a nice long weekend at Bauer Bay. I did cover it a little in a PREVIOUS BLOG. Anyway before we got there we had been having some ordinary weather and caught this little guy shelling in the most ingenious place. Dosent

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Hello Friends, Yep its that time again but this time believe it or not this blog is nothing like what I had planned, mainly due to the weather. Why is that inhibiting me for doing what I want you say, well what I did have planned in my mind of minds was a little walk up the east coast take some pics of some Sooties (Sootie Albatross) then over to the west coast where there was a really

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Hello Friends, well here we are its now 2014 so happy new year to all those I didn't manage to get in touch with. It was a fairly normal New Years as far as they go down South and not really going to go on too much about it other than to say it WAS a big night and no I didn't have a hangover, mainly due to the fact I slept through it I'm sure!! Have a look at previous years HERE along with HERE

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Hello Friends, Left a little gap in between this one and the last as there was a little info in the last blog to chew over. I have realised though that I might waffle on a little, Ahhhh well I'm sorry but that isn't going to change as I'm writing this blog and your not! LOL I thought in this blog I would give you a little taste in whats to come so here it is......  Pic: Michael

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Hello once again Friends, This, I'm sure, is the one many have been waiting for but your going to have to listen to me dribble a little bit before we get to the good stuff. That is of course unless you've not read this and gone strait to the good stuff and I'm going to warn you ITS A BIG ONE but lots of pics! SO, I last time left you with the arrival of the AA to pick us up. Only 2 weeks

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Here we go again friends, Strait into it this time got lots on my mind and not much time to get it out before it disappears!! SO, we were last talking about field training ect. in the last blog. After all this had finished which was only 2 weeks we were sent home for a month. During this time i was able to pack up my unit and prepare it for renting it out. My golly gaush I got some stuff. Don't

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Hello again Friends, Well I'm finally here.....taken a little longer than planned but as normal with this job you need to both be flexible and just go with it or one season is all you'll be able to handle. So going to Macca is a little different to going to the continent in respect to almost everything. The most obvious is no snow and LOTS more wildlife. Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service

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