Hi! Sarah Jones from Penguin Delta here. Unbelievable to be here at last. The scenery is simply stunning. A white desert forever changing with the constant wind. There is always wind, be it barely a breeze or a blustering blizzard. We arrived on Tuesday in such a blizzard and the plane skidded as we landed. I decided that that was a sign of things to come. However, I have been surprised at, not how easy things are but, if this makes sense, how familiar things are - things that we've never done before. Sounds a contradiction, I know, but I know what I mean!

Yesterday we had our first attempt at skiing out into the bay. I hadn't realised that we had even left the land until we came across a huge block of ice. Geoff, our 'supercoach', told us we were on the water. Juliette has never been on skies before and she is doing really well. Today we had a pretty serious navigation talk which we had to go over a few times! Basically, because compasses are no good because of our proximity to the magnetic north pole, we use the sun to find our way. This is a simplification of the truth. There are other things we can use too. But this is basically how it works. This afternoon we had our first go with the 'pulks' or 'sleds' , nearly fully laden. We went out for roughly four hours out into the bay and onto some mini icebergs and very rough snow. Geoff taught us how to negotiate ourselves around them and through them and over them. Also across the gullys which open up. There were some very tricky moments but we all got through it. It was a superb day. Signing off now, best wishes to all who know us and have and continue to support us at home, especially to loved ones. Over to Mike, Bye.