We finally have a bit of down time this evening as everything is RTG. We've done all of the last minute shopping that we can stand, and everything is now loaded on the plane and we are just waiting for the weather at the Patriot Hills base in Antarctica to clear for us to fly. We had a briefing with ALE (the operator of the plane and base facilities) this morning, and we were standing by this evening to potentially fly. The weather needs to be pretty nice for us to land on the blue ice runway at Patriot hills, and the visibility today just isn't good enough. We'll await a call as early as 6am tomorrow morning to get our next chance to fly down to the ice. From now on we are on standby, and can't roam too far from the telephone as we could get the call at just about any time. We are all excited to get down there now...
Catching up from the last few days in Punta Arenas. We are staying in a nice new hotel right down on the waterfront here called the Diego del Almagro. We can see the Straights of Magellan right out our window. Last night we finally had the whole team together and enjoyed a great dinner at one of our favorite local spots, Brocollino's. The chef at Brocollino's is very entertaining and the food is delicious.
That's it for now, hopefully we'll be flying early in the morning and I won't have another opportunity to post myself. When we do fly out I'll be in contact with Todd back at the Mt Trip home in Ophir via Sat phone and he'll be updating the blogs.
Ciao, Bill
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