Adam had one cool work project!

3:01pm Thursday 3rd May 2007

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Teacher Adam Eckersley is back from his Antarctic adventure, having had a cool time in temperatures which dropped to minus 30 degrees.

Adam, 24, who lives in Much Hoole, secured a much sought after six-month secondment for a plant maintenance post working for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

The mechanisation instructor, based at Myerscough College, near Preston, trained in Cambridge for two months before setting off on the journey of a lifetime at the end of November.

Now back at the college, he said: "The landscape was spectacular and always changing. My time at the remote field station Sky Blu was amazing - it's what I would call the real' Antarctic.

"Everything was completely white and the weather could change in minutes.

"I got to see the wildlife including killer whales, penguins and seals in their natural environment. I also saw two avalanches - but not too close thankfully - and gigantic icebergs." Adam admits he missed certain aspects of home.

He said: "I only got homesick when I rang home on Christmas Day and my parents were upset.

"I could use email everyday to keep in touch with everyone. It was only when I was out in field that I felt really far away, the only communication we have there is radios back to the base."

"I missed the green fields and the trees - there is a very small colour spectrum in the Antarctic, everything is either white, blue or grey."

Read Adam's full Antarctic blog www.myerscough.ac.uk/?page=subjects-mechanisation-adam-blog.