My Antarctic Diary


    This is the diary I wrote during my trip down to Antarctica on the Ross Ice Shelf in the season 2009/10 with Gateway Antarctica. I decided to include the copies of my original diary with some pictures aside the pages so that you can see what I am talking about. It might sometime be tricky to decrypt my handwriting, but as this diary was written daily on the ice, in the tent in the sonw caves, on base I think it just makes it more real ;-) So have fun and feel free to ask me any more questions about it!
    To enlarge the pictures just click on the ones you want to see in detail and they will come up in a seperate window. For Internet Explorer please allow to open seperate windows if blockage bar on top shows up.



Day 1: Saturday

 






 

 






Day 2: Sunday

 






 

 

Day 3: Monday

 






 

 









Day 4: Tuesday

 









 

 









Day 5: Wednesday

 






 

 



Day 6: Thursday - Christmas Eve

 




 

 




 

 







Day 7: Friday - Christmas

 







 

 

Day 8: Saturday

 






Day 9: Sunday

 







Day 10: Monday

 






Day 11: Tuesday

 




Day 12: Wednesday

 









 

 




Day 13: Thursday - New Year's Eve

 




 

 

 

Day 14: Friday - New Year

 




 

 






    We landed save, my car was starting up easily and we had amazing warm weather for the next couple of days. Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible!

    I hope you had a great time reading my diary and did enjoy the pictures. If you want to know more about Antarctica and what I did there just ask me or send me an email.(Please also tell me about broken links)

      Best wishes from Christchurch,

        Matthias