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Mt. Erebus is the Volcano and the large rock is Castle Rock. Our pilot this day was Richard. 31Lima was the Aircraft it's an Astar |
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Dumpster diving. We call it Skua. after the Skua bird a scavenger that comes here in the summer and lives by aggressively taking from others. There favorite treat is penguin eggs. |
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Searching for our issued red Jacket amongst the seemingly endless sea of red down parkas is an event that happens to everybody sooner or later. |
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This brave soul uses our ATM machine. It is new this year. The idea of it keeping our cards makes us all wary |
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Some of the drill cores taken from under 9 feet of ice and 500 feet of sea water near Cape Roberts |
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Looking at Fossils that are16 million years old. These fossils came from drill cores produced by the Cape Roberts project. |
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Reverse Osmosis chambers filtering and desalinating our drinking and washing water. |
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One of the three large tanks holding our water. |
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C-141 on the sea ice. this picture was taken during Winfly. Winfly is what we call the first three planes that land in mid August. This is the first light after winter. |
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These planes are the first people and supplies to land since February. And the last planes for the next six weeks until the Main Body deployment in October. October to February is our summer. |
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The fork lift at the ice runway and it's over sized tires |
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Each rack is a 1kW HF transmitter |
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The 1KW transmitters close up |
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Our field phone system repeaters on Mt. Voslips |
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Bob on the pinnacle near the top of Peak 1882 |
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Laura my friend. |
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Laura photographs well I think. It is not hard to smile when you are flying. |
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Not much wind this day but it was still cold. |
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Getting down was not as easy as I thought |
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Mount Coats |
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The sprite we use to drive to the radio site on crater hill |
