Here Come the Canuks

That snuck up on us very fast. Yesterday we saw new faces for the first time in 9 months. Kenn Borek (based out of Calagary, Canada... I think) flew in a Basler (DC-3) and a Twin Otter plane via South America and Rothera (the British Station). The Basler (with 4 people) landed, fueled up and was gone within 40 minutes.

Let's not underestimate their presence though, afterall they brought us two small boxes of fruit, causing everyone to congregate in the galley and pretend that they all liked eachother for a couple hours. Not only was it fruit, it was great fruit. Oranges, apples, grapes, pineapple and rumor has it, avacados for our fajitas today. What does fresh fruit taste like after 9 months? I'll let the pictures do the talking (Claire, Dainella, Katie, Kari):





The Twin Otter (since they have longer flight hours) stayed over night, and now are waiting for McMurdo weather to clear up before they fly on. The three guys actually came into station to eat and sleep so it's weird to see new (and tan) faces around.


Supposedly our first flight of South Polies comes in tomorrow if they can, so then things will start to get real busy again. A change in pace though is whatever everyone has been needing lately.