Ben Edwards crew, from anchored at Ostrov Pilota Makhotkino, south Kara Sea for 8 days now.
Hello, so nothing happened today really but I’m expecting us to do quite a lot tomorrow. We’re going to inflate the dingy that we’ve brought with us from Bristol. Upon the completion of that task ,and providing that we find no holes in its hull, we might go ashore and walk around a bit. That thought is quite exciting because this island has hardly ever been visited and is apparently a prime spot for coming across mammoth remains. So if we do do that I will be very happy.
In other news: my eldest brother has spent the last nine months or so in a town called Titusville, after the military officer who founded it, in Florida learning how to fly helicopters and yesterday he graduated and now has his commercial pilots licence(cpl). I just thought I’d mention that as a bit of good news, it is at least exciting for me.
According to a relatively reliable source (David), we might be able to leave with the wind in a couple of days. I really hope he’s right, the inaction is really beginning to wear us down I think.
So I’ll write again tomorrow and tell you whether we go ashore or not. In the meantime it’s two thirty in the morning, at the end of my anchor watch, and I need to go to bed, bye.