A plane is about to land, with a second about to take off from Christchurch on its way down here around dinnertime, and we had two flights yesterday as well. The end-sum of all this aviation activity is that about 40 of our winter crew have bid us goodbye, and 200 (!!) new folks are settling in for the "Winfly" (Winter Flights) shoulder season--six weeks of increased operations as everyone ramps up for the coming Mainbody (summer) season starting October 1.
The 100 of us winter folk remaining are a wee bit shell-shocked by the nearly-overnight doubling of the station population, with 2/3 of those folks being faces we haven't seen for the past 4+ months, if ever. It's a little overwhelming. But hopefully a week from now we'll all be settled back into our new (albeit busier) normal. And to balance all this slightly stressful craziness/transition time, I'm promised that Winfly is the most beautiful time at McMurdo in terms of the skies, the sunrises/sunsets, etc. So here's to six weeks of that.
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