Hermit Island

Since we arrived, we worked straight through until the Gould left. That meant we worked on our one weekend day off since it left on a Monday. We kept on working through the week and decided to wait until the next weekend to take that missed day off- TWO days off in a row instead of one. All right. To make it even better, the Saturday was my golden birthday... turning 29 on the 29th. I found out that most people outside the midwest have never heard of this- anyway, the people on station who are not from the midwest.

photo by Stacie

It started off as a beautiful day and we were able to go out in the zodiac and visit Hermit Island. We took our snowshoes to walk on all the snow that's built up over the winter. It was gorgeous. We left Hermit as the weather moved in and started to snow and blow. Before heading right back to station, we stopped off the shore of Amsler Island to watch some gentoo penguins.

photo by Stacie

We made it back to station and enjoyed a drink as we prepared the birthday dinner.