Winterer's flight around Adelaide Island

Last week I got to go on the 'winterer's local area familiarisation flight'. Intended to show us around Adelaide Island so we can get an idea of where we might like to go on our winter trips. Over winter we'll get two opportunities to hop on a skidoo with a FGA (Field General Assistant) and head out across Adelaide Island camping / climbing /hiking / snowboarding / skiing for 7 days. It was a good opportunity to get an aerial view of base too.

The small base with the red buildings is Carvajal, an old British base given over to the Chileans and later abandoned. They were intending to come back to it so it has been left fully equipped and until last year there was still gas for the gas stove! This can be reached in 6hrs by skidoo from Rothera if the weather is good or 6 days if the weather is bad (meaning slow travel and days spent laid up in the tents).