The first of a few ships docked just a few day ago. This one is an ice breaker 'The Oden', later on we will get a couple research vessles, a supply ship and a fuel tanker. 
In other news, I haven't put anything up in a while because I've been out sick. There was a nasty little bug going around. What seems to have happened is this: The station shrunk down to a population of about 800 over Christmas was recently swelled back up to about 1050. The 800 of us that had been here for three months had been well adjusted to each others germs and had no immunity built up to the new crop of viri moving in. We are also in a unique environment where all the newcomers are exposed to the northern and southern hemisphere flu viruses. So I was down and out for about a week, but feeling better now.
We have had some pretty we weather lately. Summer is for sure over. The last storm dumped a good 8-10" of very wet snow here, old timers said if was very rare to see such wet snow and so much. It is snowing again today, not as wet though. Temps are around 30F. I was supposed to go on a short snowmobile trip up Mt Erebus today but the snow canceled that, next week we try again. All the moisture means we don't have to go far for ice for drinks though. 
NASA is here testing out their inflatable lunar habitat. They plan on leaving it here for a year to see how it holds up. They are also testing a small version of their next mars/lunar rover I forget which.
So thats about it. My day to leave is the 21st of Feb, subject to weather. Travel plans right now are a few weeks in NZ, a week in Australia then home, that could change too. Almost a month away.
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