This is McMurdo. It is a bustling metropolis. Our instrument was about 50 miles east of town, smack in the middle of the Ross Ice Shelf. Flying over that, there isn't much to see except for mount Erebus and lots and lots of white. The flight was pretty bumpy, and we could see the wind kicking up a lot of snow on the ice surface:
See all that blowing snow on the surface? It was windy.. Hugh didn't think he wanted to go outside. The view from my knee was good enough for him:
"Burr...it looks cold out there. Leslie, you're nuts."Actually, it wasn't that cold out there, only -24 (sheesh...Antarctica really warps your sense of what is cold and what isn't..), but those winds. They were crazy. I'd say they were about 25 or 30 knots. But, we got the instrument and I got a picture:
I look terrible, but it was windy! After this, we got back in the helicopter and headed for home. It was a great adventure, and our pilot, Marko, was awesome.I also captured another "Monet" shot this morning. I call it "Flags".
That's it for now. Courage.
2 comments:
Leslie! Did you steal the 'S' off of the NSF Building? Suuure you didn't. And why can't you bring fod on the helicopter? Anyway, hope you're doing swell, neat icescape picture, you should make a McMurdo diorama under your Christmas tree, cute bear, and, yeah.
Oct. 22...Happy Birthday Leslie. Celebrate in the SOUTH one more time. LOVE YOU, Mom
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