Sunday was a lazy day for everyone else but I got up at 6 am to talk to my parents back home (India is 7:30 hours behind). After a good full brunch, we all scattered to do whatever we want. Some went to attend the Service at the church, I went out to the Kiwi base: Scott base about 3 miles from McMurdo.
In the afternoon, we went on a small tour to the Discovery hut near McMurdo station built by Robert Scott in 1902. His team was surviving on the last bits of 800 or so gallons of rum, 800 pounds of steak and some oatmeal, cocoa, seal meat they gathered here during their expedition.. When the help arrived, the members had to leave in a hurry, so you could see half cooked meat, half eaten cookies, an opened seal (the smell was atrocious).. Everything is preserved like it is and esp. in the cold weather down there, all food items are still like they were 100 + years back.
On our way back we saw some seals lying around..
3 comments:
yay, ur back blogging :) itka masta watatay na Ksh tujhe updates vachun...tu amhala saglyana Antarctica firvun antiyes :) lage raho :)
good posts..keep up with the Antarctica diary :) ::)
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