Quite unexpectedly the galley finished the winter with a very big bang. Last week chef Michael cooked a huge Thai dinner, followed by the “Biggest Breakfast in Antarctica” (BBIA) on Sunday, and if that wasn’t enough we had some great Indian food this week as well.

Most of the time I ate too much to even lift a camera but I managed to get a few pictures of the Thai dinner preparations while I was washing dishes in the galley.

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I haven’t gotten around to posting anything here since the sunrise weekend. This is the time of the year when things are getting pretty busy. Work is picking up with requests coming in for special schedules to be run or things to be looked up to make sure everything is in place for the last summer season of BICEP.

It is also time to start packing. I have been coming to the South Pole since 1997 and lot of stuff has accumulated over the years. So there is a lot of sorting and boxing things up going on.

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