FINALLY ARRIVED AT MAWSON STATION 9/2/2020

I have FINALLY arrived!!
Feels pretty good to get boots on the ground after 20 days at sea. So we arrived here this morning then had to get all our rooms squared away before we left the ship. Just after lunch we had to get all dressed up and climb our way down from the ship into a barge which ferried us into Mawson. The out going station leader was there to greet us and then escorted us to the red shed (main living quarters) where we went through our induction to the station. After that we had about 30 minutes to grab our stuff, locate our room and briefly get settled. Then we met up with our corresponding out-going supervisors who took us on a bit of a walk around which included a walk through our work shop and power house and also started to help get things ready for the refuelling operations which I think we will need to continue setting up tomorrow and begin refuelling the day after. Pretty chuffed at the moment … this is a beautiful area with an ice glacier right next to us, a plateau right behind us and right behind that huge mountains. I promise to send through some more photos when I can get a chance to run around and take then but things will be a bit hectic for the next week and a bit while we get through the resupply.
FYI: in the last photo the red building you can see is the workshop and just to the top right of the middle of the photo you can just see the Aurora parked up just outside Horseshoe harbour. Both of the last two photos were taken from inside the mess – What a view!!!

Hope all is well.