Yesterday's session was cancelled due to 50-70 knot winds - it was barely possible to walk about the station let alone get onto a bike. With the wind behind you, you'd have to lean back so far into it thatyou felt you were trying to walk along while half-lying down. Today it was much more manageable, though for the first half of the day we were riding into 25 knots winds at -5 degrees which was pretty hard work. The sandwiches were frozen by lunchtime - very crunchy.
Almost every time we stopped, some penguins wandered over to have a look, sometimes they would actually run up from a distance to check us out. When we re-started the motors, they looked a bit startled, rolling their eyes like they do, but otherwise they just come over, stand there watching for a bit and then walk away. Sometimes they sit down and go to sleep.
You don't need a tailwind to be so laid back you're nearly lying down.
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