Sea Ice conditions 2014

Waiting for our Twin Otter flight out to Constable Point (CNP) from Iceland tomorrow. Several 1000kgs of freight will come out in the next few days and our first task will be to dig out all our gear shipping containers and service the Skidoos. We have rented a Skidoo engine diagnostic computer to link to the machines to help with the engine service, so we will see if we can get that to work.

The satellite picture below, shows the February sea ice conditions. It shows large areas of open water where normally there would be sea ice. Open water is obvious on the route down from CNP to the village 50kms away, so travel there will be interesting! There is also a large area of open water below Sydcap, but our route there should avoid this. Lots of route finding to do over the next few weeks.

Satellite Sea Ice conditions in Scorsbysund Feb. 2014