Today was all about finishing up the core logging at Points North and it was quite a relief seeing that last hole go out the door. Yay!! 
We made it back to our really toasty tent at Raven. Who needs insulation when you have a great stove and snow all around the thin canvas tent.
She made it, Tan went 4 weeks alcohol free! Tan was wrapped and I was proud. She savoured her glass of Wolf Blass Cabernet Shiraz Merlot and it tasted better than she remembered. 
The morning of the 24th we had to pack up the office at Points. As soon as we got to Points it decided to snow. Not just a flurry but what would apparently be almost classed a blizzard it was that heavy. Everything including the runway was covered in a matter of minutes with snow and it proceeded to get thicker and thicker. A good excuse for a snowball fight. The packing up of the office and core shed continued with the snow filling up the back of the two trucks. Matt and I were happy to wrap up and head back to Raven Camp. 
On the drive back to Raven it became evident just how much it had snowed in the last few hours with suddenly everything covered in a blanket of white. It was rather spectacular.
Kewen Lake is my favourite fishing spot. It's hard to believe from the shot below that we wading in this water catching pike a few months ago.
This is the start of the snow now that won’t melt as it is now unlikely to get above zero degrees for another five or six months. The wind picked up tonight and we had serious reservations that our tent would take off in the wind it was that bad.
Having only seen it in summer, the parkland at Hidden Bay was a blanket of green reindeer moss. Now it is a blanket of snow amongst the open trees. On Friday, we took Elena, another geologist out for a drive to see it in winter and go for a walk. It was quite with no one around the snow was untouched. Quite beautiful really.
Lucky this sign told us we weren't allowed to swim in the lake or we would of been in there straight away (well maybe not!!)
We also stopped off to show Elena one of the rigs working at Raven.
That day we both did some work in the office in the morning with Cookie, the pug, wanting to help out. 
Both the dogs are enjoying playing out in the snow.
We hopped off to plane for 10 minutes to grab some cargo and a couple of passengers and the pilot (the man seems to do everything) took our photo. 
As you can see the plane (apart from being another prop… sigh) is quite small. It’s quite strange to be able to see out the pilots window, particularly when coming in to land and they are trying to line up the run way. A quick stop and we were off to Points North, about a 90 minute flight. The sun disappeared and we couldn’t see much at all including the run way until we were almost on top of it. 
Brendo met us at the airport and we caught up with him and the boys looked at core and talked work for a while. Brendo drove us out to Raven Camp (about 30 mins – although we had to head back half way there and refuel as the petrol light came on). At this point it was around 5 degrees. We stopped at Kewen Lake at Dan’s request to reminisce about the many fish he caught there.
