Gateway to Antartica

From their we checked into the motel and unloaded all our stuff, delighted to have a night in real bed. We drove to the airport and visited the Anartic Centre. This is where NZ, USA and Italy base their expeditions for Antartica and there is a lot of information and some cool exhibits. Everyone but me (still sick) experienced an Antartic Storm where the temperature in a large room (with snow) is dropped to -20 degrees and the winds are increased. It certainly made a change from mountains and lakes which we have seen enough of to last us for a while.

While we were in there Dad left for a while and took the campervan back and when we were done looking at everything and watching the cute penguin videos we walked back to the motel, though it was further than we thought.

We tried to have an early night since we had to get up early but couldn't resist a bit of tv.