Weekly snapshot #27

It's an overcast but calm, lovely day on Ross Island. The hours of sunlight each day are quickly growing as we cruise toward the Southern Hemisphere Vernal Equinox (on September 22), at which point there will be more daylight than darkness each day until eventually the skies will never get totally dark during the coming Antarctic summer.


For now, we're still enjoying lovely night skies and long, colorful sunrises and sunsets.


The initial shock of the bigger station population and increased activity of the shoulder season has worn off a bit and we're refinding our daily equilibrium. The store is definitely busier than before but way more manageable than the first few days of Winfly, when all the new folks were coming in to stock up on alcohol and toiletries and see what's new in apparel this year. It was a little insane for a few days there and I'm glad to be back to a more steady business.