The End
THE END So that's it! Adventure done, box ticked... goin' home to see what happens next. Even though you know it's coming and have been waiting for it with excitement, it's still a weird feeling to leave Mawson Station after all this time and be heading back to reality.. well a different reality anyway. A year away is a very long time, even though on the day I woke up knowing we would be leaving, I wondered where the year had actually gone. The Nuyina arrived mid January to find a lot of ice still in Kista Strait and Horseshoe Harbour immediately in front of Mawson Station. So basically for the first week the Nuyina "drove" up and down the "street" trying to crunch up the at times 1 metre thick ice so it would all blow away the next time we got a decent bit of wind coming off the Ice Plateau. Every morning almost without exception we get Katabatic Winds from the South which would be perfect to push the ice out to sea. The problem was they were ...