March 16th moon & sky

a nice combination the moon came above the horizon and the sky was dark enough to see it!

vacation home

the inside


















the little A frame, its about 4 miles from town and can sleep 6

















how we got out there yesterday














the views

















the bathroom

people of McMurdo

The girls were having a party inside, to the boys decided to sit outside...pretty funny and cold!
me in the Rec office, every day I update the white board so people know whats going on that day
Friendly Phil sporting his cool belt buckle
There are 62 girls here this winter, so we all got together the other day to get to know eachother

good times in Rec

scary but true...they let anybody work in the kitchen this is how we get people to come in and once they are inside we get them to help us
we found some random pants in our office

mountains

Mt. Erebus

My friend Stacey on top of Ob Hill with Erebus in the background

wildlife

Skua Birds Local Seals

a friend on top of Castle Rock Mountain
The town bowling alley, 2 old wooden lanes that operates with a MANUAL pinsetter. That means somebody standing at the end and collecting all the pins.
Survival shelter, there are a few of these out on popular hiking trails in case a storm comes in

Ice Bergs

aerial shots taken of some nearby icebergs

more from Pegasus

The plane, A Super Consteallation named Pegasus. I think it crashed here in 1970 Friendly Phil taking a bad spill on his dining hall sled
McMurdo town is the direction you can see
good fun on the tail of the plane

Pegasus Plane

Us on the tail of a crashed airplane
















guess who












The "Skua" bird, they attack people for food

















group on the plane








The Royal Society Mountain Range

Field Trip

The Delta looks like a cross between an old train car & a dump truck














me in the back of the Delta, not a warm vehicle to ride in














The Army of Red












Red flags are good and mean no crevasses are near the trail















heading towards the plane

Last Flight Out!!!

We had a really fun champagne toast to send the last flight out. They left Tuesday February 28th and will be back in for "win fly" sometime in mid August. There are 204 of us here for the winter.















The hand belongs to the National Science Foundation Manager down here. His toast said "Here is to all of you lying on your Pyschiatric evaluations".














see ya










they did a fly over for us on the deck and tilted their wings, sort of waved goodbye to us!

Where I live

We got several inches of snow this week


















my room
















my highrise!














the view from my window