On my last day of work before I fly to New Zealand, I heard that there were Adele penquins on the edge of the sea ice next to the waste water treatment plant. So I stole the company truck and took a little look. I've seen penquins from a distance, but never up close. They look like puppies walking around on their hind legs. Damn cute those penquins. Take me now, I am ready to go.
I wanted to get one last hike up to Castle Rock in before I left Antarctica. A group of us hiked up last Sunday. It took Jenny, Rick, Evan, Nicole and I about four and a half hours.
On top. You can see the channel in the distance cut by the icebreaker Oden to get into McMurdo Sound.
Jenny, Rick and Nicole. Nicole is a Kiwi down here with the New Zealand army.
View of Mt. Erebus, an active volcano, from the top.
Rick, Jenny, Nicole & Evan
View from the top of the Ross Sea ice shelf with open water in the background.
View of town with open water.
Travis Moose, carpenter
Jenny Brower, carpenter helper
John, power plant construction laborer
Josh Rose, carpenter
Sharon
Dave Story, foreman
Aerial photo of Byrd Field Camp at put in. Photo by Josh Rose. The long yellow structure is the galley. On the left is the winter berm.
The carpenter crew
The power poles are about all that is left after the tent structures are taken down.
Antarctica landscape with a defunct tower in the background.
View of tent city (where we sleep) on a particularly blowy day.
Some carps. Josh, Thaona, Jenny and Jeremy.
The Galley take down
Inside the Galley for morning meeting.
My tent.
A sundog
The chief, sort of a warming hut/hang out place for the carps.
Home at last
