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

More McMurdo

town view from midway up Ob Hill. It really looks like an ugly little mining town
Castle Rock, I think this is the top of a volcanoe that blew off and landed her. Its a popular hiking/back country ski area.
The sun is getting lower!
The winter Recreation staff
plane with skis

nearby hiking

I swear it was steeper than this picture makes it look
me on a trail
The big city, McMurdo Town, winter population of 200
Roll Cage Mary with Ob Hill behind her

more around town pics

Coast Guard Ice Breaker, Polar Star was in town for fuel and to chop up some ice
Vince's Cross on Discovery Hut Hill I live in the middle brown building
me on a local hiking trail
view of town with Scotts hut in the front

The Kiwi Base

This is the Kiwi Camp, Scott Base with Mt. Erebus behind it Cracks in the Ice
Scott Base aierial shot
These are pressure ridges in the ice

McMurdo Sign

This is the official McMurdo town sign and Alison's last day on the continent.

Trip to Scotts Hut

This is a frozen seal carcass from way back when Scotts explorer team was living here.















Alison and I holding hands with Dive Pard, those of you from Kwaj will know who he is. He was one of our regular dive partners. He is very well traveled!









Alison & I took a hike over to the explorer Scotts Hut. We were not able to go inside but I definitly will get back there and get some pictures from the very historic inside. You can see the hut behind me.

Ships on the Ice!

This is a Russian Ice Breaker just about to arrive on our ice pier
The ice breaker leaving the turning basin and coming in
Fuel barge being escorted by the ice breaker, the ice was to thick for the barge on its own