This is Zoe ( Penguin Echo ) jotting a few ramblings about our time so far.....

We've been here at Resolute Bay a week now and we are ploughing through the training, on the first day with just skis, and since then pulling our pulks. Geoff puts a 90 lb bag of salt in them as well as some kit to simulate the weight, we then trek off onto the sea ice to a particularly tricky bit of terrain, with icebergs and cravasses. He then makes us go up, down and through these gulleys and ridges hauling our pulks (Geoff has a funny sense of humour....). Never the less, we have a lot of fun at each others expense.

We had our first night out on the ice, and walked out to this area with the most amazing landscape - it was just how I imagine the surface of the moon to be. Geoff put the ' bear wire' out ( basically a trip wire - just in case). Put the tent up with consumate ease, much easier than the silly things I take up to The Lakes, they are an ingenious design, but do require 7 skis and 6 ski poles, so perhaps not that practical for the UK!

While camped out we spoke to Penguin Delta on the HF radio. It was very funny being at 74 degrees talking to them at 87 degrees, some 750 miles North. They sounded in very good spirits and we had a little banter over the waves.

Penguin Delta continue to make excellent progress. Another eight miles achieved today places them at 87degs13minsN 71degs39minsW. The daily average required to make the Pole by the end of May is a tad under this. Fingers crossed.

Have to go, but speak to you again. Two hundred and forty miles gone one hundred and sixty seven to go.

Zoe