Warming up

The warmer weather over the last few days has meant the snow has started to melt which is why we had to be sure to finish our lake work on the ice before it was too late. Once the weather starts warming the snow disappears amazingly quickly. When it’s wet and warm the caleta quickly fills up with ice from the glaciers and we can hear it cracking, sounding like gunshot from the other side of the water, the ice eventually being broken up and washed up on Jubany beach. With the surface snow melting, the crevasses on the once pure white snow covered glaciers also become very distinct and outside the mouth of the cove we have also seen huge iceberg islands drifting in the sea. The weather also gets more stormy as the temperature increases which makes it difficult for those working in the bay as well as us on the ice.

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