Land Crab Diaries: Day 2: first day in the office... And the beach.

Wow what a day!! I'm shattered now but it's been amazing. I'll keep this short as I want to go to bed and I haven't even unpacked yet I've been that busy.

We went for breakfast at around 8am in the mess. Very different to in the Falklands, everyone eats together whatever rank you are or who you work for. Prob because there are less of us?? Anyway. There was loads of fresh fruit which was brilliant!!

We then went for our meeting with the Administrator at 9am, in the Capitol City of George Town. He heads the government here so he's quite important. What a nice chap! The rest of the morning was then spent meeting various people, filling in forms, and dealing with minor IT disasters.

The Met Office is as I would expect, just surrounded with Palm trees and mountains!! Here are a few pics of the office, and the view to the front (Palm trees) and back (mountains).

I met the rest of the team and they all are lovely. I've met them all before anyway but you know what I mean.

I took a few pics on the way to lunch, of our drive from the office to the mess, so you can see what it looks like.

The afternoon was filled with more form filling, meeting people, and dealing with IT. We left at around 4.30, went to the gym and had dinner. The food here is awesome. Loads of fresh fruit and veg - way better than the Falklands!!!!

After dinner Helen suggested we head to Long Beach to try and see some green turtles. It's the very end of turtle season, so we weren't expecting to see much. Long Beach is, as expected, a long beach with white sand and sea that is too dangerous to swim in. It looked beautiful and very inviting. Especially as the sea is around 27 degrees at the moment. The sun was setting which made it look even more beautiful.