Da Plane Da Plane
Posted by Anthony and Christine Powell at 9/5/2008 9:58 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
The first plane after winter has arrived.
It brought with it new people, mail, fresh fruit and vegetables, and of course most importantly my darling wife.
It tends to be a time of sensory overload for the winter staff, seeing unfamiliar faces, and some old faces back again.
The new people look really strange with their tanned skin. After getting used to seeing nothing but pale winter staff for so long, the new people look orange to us, as though someone has turned the saturation up too high on the TV.
Eating a fresh banana is like mana from heaven. Your body is craving the fresh fruit after going without for so long. Of course, not being used to it, it makes for lots of grumbly tummies afterward too.
The other bad thing about this time of year is typically new cold and flu viruses will be introduced by the new folk.
Living in close quarters with so many people typically means they spread very fast too.
Over the winter all the cold and flu viruses had burned out, so our immune systems have not had much to work on. Any new viruses tend to hit us quite hard.
Hopefully the new policy this year of requiring everyone to have a flu shot will relieve most of that this time around.
The sun is up for 8 hours a day now. It's still taking a while to get used to seeing the sun in the sky again.
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HI folks,
Glad to have found you when surfing the web.I am the content manager of WAP (Worldwide Antarctic Program) web site deicated to Hams & Antarctic chasers. Just asking your permission to link your site on the link pages at WAP. Just wondering if there's any Ham who can get access to the Ham radio shack at Mc Murdo and be active on HF.
I'll be glad to get an answer from you.
Take care and have a great time down there.
Gianni Varetto I1HYW
www.waponline.it
varettos@tin.it
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There were no ham operators here this winter for a change, but I'm sure there will be some turning up with the incoming (southern) summer crew.
Feel free to link as you like.
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HI Antz,
Thanks a lot for information and permission to link at WAP site.
Kindest regards from Italy
Gianni I1HYW
www.waponline.it
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Hello Powell,
I can not find your contact information.
My name is Vidar Lien, and I'm the publisher of Purview Magazine, which will be launched March 2009 in the US, UK and Scandinavia. We are looking to feature a story from Antarctica, please e-mail
me at: vidar@purviewmagazine.com to let me know if you are interested.
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