Sunday, March 3, 2013

End of Another Season

So as I am writing this I have 2 days left here in Antarctica this season.  It is hard to believe that I left Denver on October 8th to come down here and it is almost over.  This season has been fun and hard at the same times.  I am glad that I came back for a second season and I am planning on coming back for a third.  It is weird how working down here gets into your blood and it feels like home.  The hard days of working at the airfield when the road was bad and planes were canceling have not been enough to get me to change my mind.  I am looking forward to next season and what it may bring.  I hope that you have all enjoyed the photos and stories that I have shared this season.  I know that I haven't posted as much as I did last year but there was far fewer new events and activities that occurred this year for me where as last year everything was new.

Till next time.

Tim

This van came from the South Pole and had 11,000 miles on it.  That is a lot of driving around the world.

This is what is left from a Challenger from a field camp to get flown back to McMurdo to be repaired.

My friend Shelly is standing next to a case that has samples from the WISSARD science group, it cost almost $30 million for the whole project to get the samples that are in the case.

The C-17 returns after being gone for over 2 months!  We were excited to see this plane again.

The engine from the tanker ship.

Loading a helicopter onto the C-17.

A view from the tankers bridge.

A flat rack being dropped off in the cargo yard for vessel cargo!

Had no idea that CSU was even down here this year.  I need to find out what they are studying down here.

The ice breaker and a cruise ship just right outside our doorstep.

Before all the ice broke out.

The resupply vessel Ocean Giant.  I will post video later of the ship leaving and hitting just off of Hut Point.

Mt. Discovery, the last C-17 of the season and a South Korean ice breaker.

South Korean helicopter and passengers getting off at the airfield before they flew out.

A coffin.  Heard we had one here but never saw it till this year.  I had to help load it on to the plane that the South Koreans left on.

The New Zealand 757, I will fly out on this plane in a few days.