The satellite photo below shows the state of the sea ice on the 18th March 2015, so things are not looking too bad for travel. However, I think the snow cover hides some fairly large areas of thin ice.
This is a satellite photo taken on the 1st February, only 2 months earlier showing large areas of open water just south of Syd Kap. It still looks thin only a month ago so we will have to keep an eye on it.
Paul and the team have been out before us for a week and sent some pictures of the first views of the camp. The Weatherhaven and containers below, are completely snowed up and they have spent the last week digging everything out.
A close up of the Weatherhaven, our main living tent, shows that the windward tensioning straps have all broken and the skin has slipped off the windward frame. (The orange skin should be over the white end panel on the left of the picture) This has let snow in and buckled the frame, so everyone has been digging to get it put right. It's all sorted now and the skidoo mechanic has all the skidoos serviced, so progress is being made.
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