Well. Today was almost, very almost a complete disaster. We were very worried at one point this morning. Basically we got up all ready to make a good day, we had zero visibility but that wasn’t any great change. However, there was, this freezing fog, a freezing mist which had an imperceptible sort of precipitation. You couldn’t tell that it was snowing or raining or anything. But when it hit you, it instantly turns to ice. After about 20 minutes of walking, maybe half an hour walking, our goggles had caked in ice so thick, I took my goggles off and saw that our suits were absolutely caked in this ice. I mean, really sticky hard ice had formed all over our suit. Not wanting to take the risk of being soaking wet like we did the other day and having to take days off and all the rest of it. We quickly whipped the tents out and we did our best to spend a couple of hours cracking as much of the ice off as we could before it melted into our suits.
So, that was our morning which was a bit depressing really ’cause we’d already eaten our full breakfast so we couldn’t go half rations really, and we were worried we weren’t going to make the distant.
However, it all cleared up and we had a little bit of visibility this afternoon. We managed to make, we think we haven’t check it but we managed almost our daily distance, slightly short.
The other reason that we were slightly short on our daily distance today and it’s becoming a bit of a problem is that Katie has development an infection on her foot which could or couldn’t be combined with frostbite. It’s very difficult to tell in the moment but anyway, her toe is very swollen and I’ve put her on an antibiotics course courtesy of Doctor Ed, but it is making walking very difficult. Her little toe is quite, although is also the whole right hand side of her foot, is quite swollen so it’s very difficult for her to put it in to her boot in the mornings. A lot of agony, a lot of tears. And then walking all day. She’s starting to take pain killers and we’re hoping that the antibiotics course will kill that infection pretty quickly.
Apart from that, we’re both feeling the hunger a lot more now. We are starting to dream about food and we’re eating our entire meals and still being quite hungry at the end of it. So, that’s all good. Apart from that, our morale is quite high today. We’re quite cheery and I think we’re doing maps after this, but I think we’re almost at the half way stage or maybe the day after in regards to food to distant ratios. So, that’s all good. And a part from that, that’s about it really. We’re all wrapped up, it’s snowing and we’re just about to go to sleep, chat tomorrow. Bye.
