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Happy team, hot showers, hot pool!

Monday 11 July, Jan Mayen

Busy morning counting food, doing maintenance and other boat stuff, waiting
for the call from the climbers when they would be ready at base camp, so we
could organise the transport with the base.
Timing ended up great, as just as Luke and I were walking towards the base,
the truck arrived with all the bags!
Now let me tell you, unloading about 10 - 12 bags from the truck onto the
top of the beach and then down to the waterline, without getting black lava
beach sand on them, is quite the expedition in itself, never mind climbing
the volcano!
We made good use of the driftwood and managed to get it all done. Several
trips with the dinghy back to the boat and all the gear was back on board.
The climbing team was enjoying some well earned showers and hot pool time
before everybody went wild in the local shop - who knew you could buy stuff
here! Chocolate, post cards with a special Beerenberg stamp, sweaters...the
works!
One of the t-shirts (after translation) really made us laugh:
Theory is when nothing works but you know why
Practice is when everything works but you have no idea why
Here we have both theory and practice: nothing works and we have no idea
why!
A quick meal on the boat, and the climbing party went ashore with Luke for
some well deserved drinks in the local base bar.
Cheers!
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