McMurdo Season # 6 Day - 1

Yesterday was a full day of supervisor training out at the CDC for supervisors.  In the morning HR training, which is dull, but the instructor was good so that make it reasonable.  Then in the afternoon we had to sit through supervisor safety training with a person that we have worked before and he is terrible.  So the entire afternoon was wasted and really pointless, but, they paid me to be there so I survived.

Then we got back to the hotel about 4pm and we headed right out to the bus station which is only about 10 blocks from us.  There we jumped on the Y bus to New Brighton.  New Brighton is a cool little ocean front town.  They have a 300 meter long pier out into the ocean, and on the beach at the end of the pier is the library.  Unfortunately right now the library is closed for renovations.  But we had a nice walk out on the pier; saw some people fishing and some crabbing.  It was also high tide and there were some good rollers coming in, so we saw some hearty surfers out in the cold water.

Today we are back to the CDC for cold weather clothing issue, as well as general training.  Paula talked to the officer from the C17 yesterday and he said that their are 108 people manifested for our flight, and the weather report looked good for Monday.

Thanks for checking out the blog.
R.J.