The Redshed. My window. Top floor. 7th from right.

The Redshed is like a Ski Lodge I guess. It’s two stories high and the place where we will eat, sleep and be entertained for the next 12 months. It seems huge and sprawling with its various staircases and endless passageways and doors and doors and doors and doors and doors. We received a temporary room as we had to share the building with the departing 25 or so expeditioners and some of the resupply crew and ship crew. I’m sure they felt a bit invaded having a hoard of new people crash their pad. But then it was only for a week and they would be heading out to our ship and heading home. Or so they thought. But that story can be another post another day.

The part that probably blew me away the most was the wallow upstairs. On the northern end of the red shed is a large area with several big bay windows and comfy leather chairs that look east out along the coast. I knew from stories and pics that we overlooked Horseshoe Harbour but I had no idea there was an even more spectacular view on the other side of the building. It looked unreal. Not in a hey man that’s unreal sort of way but in a way that made me think nothing could look that spectacular. You couldn’t design something like the panorama nature had put on offer. And I get to sit and look at it anytime I want. Well unless I’m working I guess.

I could put a hundred photos up but it wouldn’t accurately portray the reality. A huge white ice plateau that cuts away from the crisp blue sky and broken off in a jagged line of amazing blue and white walls that hold back the dark blue sea. The sea was calm and home to numerous small brown, ice ringed islands and a few icebergs that had broken free and slowly making their way to the southern ocean and their ultimate demise. In the distance were even more icebergs that could be years or even decades old that had their ninety percent bums, hooked on the ocean floor. The view changes all day as the sky down here has an amazing palette of colours and is not afraid to use them.

I actually felt a bit sad that everybody in the world couldn’t see this view. Particularly my daughters, who I’ve dragged to amazing places around the world over the years.  Maybe the world could be a better place if more people could see how spectacular it can be.

Phew! Shake head! So beautiful.