Today is the shortest day, from this point on we should start getting more light and sometime soon the sun should re-appear from its hiding place behind the mountains. We've not experienced total darkness but the days have become pretty short with only 2-3 hours of dusky daylight.
Traditionally the eldest person on base lowers the old flag and the youngest raises the new one.
Richard (the electrician) lowering the flag
Matt (the electronic engineer) raising the new flagThe photos were taken around 1pm local so you get some kind of idea of the amount of light we have.
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