After six days at sea, we arrived at the edge of the fast ice - the thick ice attached to land - and RSV Nuyina really showed its icebreaking capability, hitting the edge at around 9 knots and cutting a swathe through.
The noise inside the ship is incredible as it forces its way through ice that's up to 1.6m thick.
As we got closer to Davis research station, we came through what's known as 'iceberg alley' - iceberg after iceberg on each side of us, massive in scale, some porcelain smooth, some jagged, shot through with pale blue and aqua.
We parked up in the ice about a kilometre from Davis, the gangway went down, and we could walk straight off the ship on to a frozen landscape. It's the strangest sight - a huge ship 'landlocked' in ice.
A road and a pedestrian walkway were marked in the ice and we began resupply. The cranes bring containers up from hold and place them on trucks, and the trucks head to the station. It will take us just over a week to set Davis up with food, fuel and water for the year ahead.
Project groups on the ship also have work to do while resupply happens. One group drilled a hole in the ice to put a remote underwater vehicle down to look at marine life on the seafloor.
Another group spent hours retrieving data on sea level rise from a tide gauge near the station and wildlife ecologists travelled to Gardener and Warriner island to check on how local penguin populations are faring.
Everyone who doesn't have project work to do helps with resupply. Some people head to the station to do 'slushie' or kitchen hand duty. Others help unpack containers or walk the fuel line, in shifts, as diesel is transferred from the ship to the station.
In total, we're unloading 500 tonnes of cargo - including 12,600 eggs, 500 kilos of bacon and 600 kilos of cheese - 140,000 litres of water and around 800,000 litres of fuel.
In one day, expeditioners helped unpack a tonne of meat and 10 tonnes of flour!
All the focus is on resupply once it starts so we marked Halloween early with a dress-up quiz. The jellyfish won the costume prize.
There are always a few curious Adelie penguins scooting by the ship on their bellies and we even had a visit from some elegant emperor penguins, who did not appear impressed or surprised.
