I like to see my kids and hear about what they are doing. When I'm home, the time flies by very quickly. I spend my free time doing whatever my family wants to do... I just want to be with them. We might take a family holiday, go out to eat at a restaurant, or relax around our house.
My first language is Afrikaans, and my second language is English. To say "Hello" in Afrikaans, you would say "Hallo" or "Goeimiddag", which roughly means "Good afternoon".
My family has a dog and a cat. Our dog's name is Biggie, and I don't know the cat's name because we got it recently and I haven't met it yet. I really like dogs, but I'm a bit afraid of cats.
I have been lucky to travel all around the South Atlantic Ocean and to Antarctica. We mostly visit islands like Gough Island (inhabited by six people who run a remote weather station, which the ship resupplies), Marion Island (again, only inhabited by a small number of people who run a research station), Tristan da Cuhna (the most remote, inhabited archepelago in the world, only accessible by ship), and the SANAE IV South African research base, located on the top of a bluff in Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Each of these isolated communities depend on the S.A. Agulhas II to deliver new supplies and people each year. I have visited each of these places several times, and this is also my second trip to the sink site of Ernest Shackleton's ship in the Weddell Sea.
