Friday, February 6, 2009

Update

I am still in McMurdo, but should be leaving tomorrow. My flight out today was canceled because the C-17 that was supposed to fly from Christchurch to pick us up was waiting for a part to arrive in New Zealand. Twenty people of the 140 that were scheduled to leave were selected to go on a medevac flight on a C-130 today, and one of our members was able to get on that flight. That leaves two of us down here, and I have now spent the most time in Antarctica on this trip of anyone in our collaboration.
You can't see it as well in this photo as it actually appeared, but if you look at the whispy cloud below the sun, you can see a rainbow in it.











What $6 million buys you these days, and what I have to get through airport security in a carry-on.












The cargo ship arrived a few days ago, and they are just about finished offloading. They will load up all of our trash and get out of here in a few more days. You can see the blades for the Kiwi wind turbines on top of some of the containers. It took them a while to coordinate getting those off of the ship. Rumor has it the Kiwis are sending down 40 workers to try to get the three towers up and running before the last flight leaves here on the 23rd.




Our hangar as we left it. CSBF had already left at this point, so this will be much as they find it next year after it's pulled off of the berm. The scrap heap was theirs.










Erebus as I left LDB for the last time.

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