26 Aug
We were woken up very early – 5.30pm as it was hoped we would be doing a landing at Cape Fligely on Rudolph Island, the northern most island of the Franz Josef Land archipelago. However, it was not to be – dense fog made it quite impossible to conceive of flying and shore? What [...]
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25 Aug
OK – to attempt the impossible here! For some reason, I let this day and the next day slip so am now trying to resurrect the memories based on the daily programs and few annotated notes from over a week ago…
But I guess this wasn’t a very exciting day – according to the program, [...]
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24 Aug
We emerged from the icebreaking of the night somewhere in there. Probably about the time I fell asleep… Anyway, we were approaching Biruli Bay on the western side of the Tamyry Peninsula, a site of some importance. We didn’t know what. The EL called a briefing at 9.15am after breakfast, but in his usual [...]
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23 Aug
Okay – my early morning snooze was destroyed by me flying out of bed and frantically making two extra slides for my talk! The perils of being a graphic designer with a geology degree about to give a talk – can create last minute diagrams!
So, I am pleased to say I my newly revised [...]
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22 Aug
Well, er… It’s been a couple of days since I actually sat down to do this, so going to have to dreg this up from my memories here… The only saving grace is I had to write the passenger log for those two days so I have those to refer to. So, lets see… [...]
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