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Gret view of Rainier from take off

Coromandel Peninsula - New Zealand. Hahei??

This might be the first spot Jay and I camped at in Tinkerbell....

West coast near Auckland

DJ and Jennifer hauling gear through Auckland

We had a lot of crap - here we are in the Antarctic Center where NSF issues us all our extreme cold weather gear

Julie meets Big Red

ECW gear lined up for the flight

Some of the earthquake damage in Christchurch - some spots were worse, others were better.

We only had a few hours in Christchurch, but Jennifer and I found the brewpub

Our cute little B&B

Stacy, John, DJ, and David waiting like hobos outside a restaurant for some of Stacy's friends to show. The restaurant was closed because of earthquake damage so we had to go somewhere else...

The crew waiting to get breakfast before our flight at the tourist Antarctic center in Christchurch

Waiting for the flight

Jennifer and David

They forgot I was a vegetarian for the flight lunch. Go Meaty!

Paul, Bob, Stacy

Up in the cockpit

First view of the ice!

View of folks from the cockpit

Henry and Jackson's water drop - and Stacy snoozing in the background

There were only two windows in the plane so we took turns going to the windows to look out

Bob, Stacy, and Julie

Stacy and Julie

Off the plane!

The sea ice runway

Cold! Boarding Ivan the Terra Bus!

Machines for Henry and Jackson!

Packed in

Erebus (active volcano!) and some fur from someone's big red jacket

Outside Building 155 - the galley, shop, etc.

Unpacking our stuff

View from the lab

Let the training begin

Ready to be happy campers! Heading out for our 2 day training (survival on the ice). Jennifer, David, Kevin, Tina

Paul - he is 70?? and is the amazing scientist who dove here in the late 60s and set up some of the experiments that we will be resampling

Some big wheels out here - that is me....

Kevin and Julie

View from our camp

Setting up a Scott tent

Building a wall for a wind break - Tina and Kevin

Julie is happy! (and a little scared by these temperatures)

Setting up the kitchen

Julie and Kevin

Tina building her trench - some people slept in these....I chose to sleep in a tent (call me wimpy)

Happy camp - I was in the red tent

Can you see the land?

My tent (red) and a Scott tent

Green energy in a white place

The view of Mt.Discovery was amazing

You can see Scott Base (the New Zealanders) in the distance

Flags guide us in storms and tell us where it is safe to walk on the sea ice

Jennifer has horns

Learning how to search for a lost camper in a "storm"

A storm blew up while we were waiting to go back to McMurdo

Waiting for the bus

Brian and Jennifer

The little blue building is the dive locker and the sea ice is out in the distance

The Tucker - our primary mode of transportation on the ice

Tucker's engine with DJ, Bob, and Stacy

Julie driving the Tucker

Hut Point - memorial cross to Scott

The food room! This is where Jennifer gets to come to get all our food for our two weeks out in the field at New Harbor

I can't get over how great the food is here! Look at these yummy selections!

THe Tucker awaits some work!

The road on the sea ice

Skidoo training

John got hot so he took his pants off

Yes, I drove a snowmobile. It was strangely fun even though I can't stand them.

Fisher got frostbite on her fingernails =(

Urchins in the touch tank and a HUGE sea spider (pycnogonid)

Storm! COndition 2 (good weather is COndition 3 and white out is C1)

Learning how to drive a Piston Bully

Kevin drilling holes for flags to makr spots for drilling our next dive hole

McMurdo from the sea ice

The road to Cape Evans

More cool tracks

Sea ice training

See the Weddell seal poking its head up under the black flags? He/she made their breathing hole in the middle of the road!

Inspecting a crack in the sea ice

Measuring the thickness of the ice

That log is a Weddell seal

Grounded iceberg at Cape Evans

The plane coming into land from New Zealand

Paul drilling a hole in the ice

Mt. Erebus - southernmost active volcano

Iceberg and big crack in the ice

Iceberg in front of Cape Evans

Iceberg in front of Cape Evans

Julie in front of the iceberg

Kevin and David

Sunset from McMurdo

Paul takes in the sunset from the dorm

Party in the BFC

Rob and Jennifer

People like to dress up for parties here in the Antarctic

Check out the primary stage on the regulators after a dive - they come up with ice all over them. These regulators work hard!

Fisher and Kevin in the closet - testing the video camera

The dive hut over Daytons Wall

Our Piston Bully for the day

the wet room in the lab

The hut over Jetty (one of our sites)

Getting ready to drill holes for divers!

The second a hole was drilled we had a Weddell seal. Very cute. This is just a juvenile.

The drill and the Cat

LT drilling for us

David setting up SCINI

Jennifer and our favorite little Weddell

Is anyone coming up to nibble on my flippers?

Kevin gets sleepy after dives

Jennifer says hi!

Stacy gets ready to go in with the seal!

This should give you an idea of how clear the water is here! You can see for hundreds and hundreds of feet.

Sunset from our bedroom

View from my room

Amazing light and funky wind wisps over the sea ice

Jennifer looking hot with her half frozen beer

Can you believe this is my outfit? I've had some issues with my heels because of the bunny boots, so Stacy loaned me her orange crocs

What a view from McMurdo! This is looking over to the Dry Valley

Our dorms (you can't see mine from here, but Paul is in the first dorm on the right)

Checking out divers!

Seal fight over the hole!

Hut Point (one of Scott's huts, Discorvey Hut is in view, Shackleton also used this hut)

Hut Point and mountains in the background

Flattening the snow and ice around a dive hole before we plop a hut on it

Weddell seal hanging out by one of our holes (marked by the black flags so people don't fall in!)

Launching the weather balloon

Weather balloon

Chipping out our hole for diving later on with the seal sleeping in the background

Up goes the balloon!

Pulling food for 10 people for two weeks at New Harbor. This was FUN! It was shopping for all the food of your dreams (some not so dreamy too) for free. =)

The biggest isopod ever (these photos are from the touch tank in the wet lab)

The blob on the left is an anemone, and believe it or not, the yellow blob on hte right is a nudibranch!

Giant pycnogonid (sea spider) Everywhere else in the world they are super tiny....here they are huge!

Look at the size of this thing! Super cool!

Stacy getting ready to dive in the contaminated spots in McMurdo Sound (she goes in with a full face mask and everything....we don't do these dives)

Rob and Stacy (Jennifer in the background)

Bye bye Stacy - down the hole on surface supplied air

McMurdo Station from the road out to Hut Point - Observation Hill in the background

Tina and McMurdo

We had a day off!! So we went for a hike near McMurdo.... here we are up the hill looking down toward Discovery Hut and across McMurdo Sound toward Mt.Discovery

Jennifer and Stacy looking out over McMurdo Sound

Tina looking toward Cape Evans

Cape Evans - Tent Island and Inaccessible Island in the distance

Mt. Erebus - smoking! This is the southernmost active volcano in the world!

Tina and Stacy - can you tell who is who? Big Reds make it difficult!

This was my first really great view of the volcano - it is really neat to see the steam rising up!

Tina and a WATER DROP

Julie and Mt.Erebus

This is what happens when a truck catches on fire

This is a dream come true kind of place for little boys like Henry and Jackson!

This monster does a land traverse over glaciers to the South Pole each year, carrying fuel to the base

Emptying the poo sediment from the poo site

Poo sludge back in the hole

A seal came up the hole and took a dump for the divers.

Building floaters to replace Paul's

Regulators in the dive locker

Drysuits in the dive locker

Tina driving the Tucker

Hanging in the dive locker

Kevin, Rob, Stacy, and Paul

Snowball fight in the lab

Interesting sponge

Kevin checks out the neat sponge

Weather balloon launch

Paul and Kevin go through samples

Paul gets a squid hat!

Paul and Stacy being nerdy

DJ lecturing on SCINI

Paul's signature in the guest book from the early 60s

Paul is a happy dude

Super cool amphipod in the tank

Kevin - amazed by the huge isopod

I'm almost a nudibranch

Fisher stirs some paint

Prepping for Halloween

The Tucker out on the sea ice by Cape Evans

Iceberg caught in the sea ice

The Tucker and an iceberg

Paul and Stacy snoozing in the back of the Tucker

The view from inside the Tucker on the road to Cape Evans

Crap - I forgot to change the exposure on my camera, so all these photos of a Weddell seal are overexposed. =( I think you get the idea

The Erebus glacier tongue (againk, overexposed....I figured out what was happening after this!)

We dove under the ice here right up next to this glacier and rock wall. It was one of the coolest dives I've ever done in my life!

Paul and the glacier

Julie standing on top of her dive site

The Tucker in front of the dive hut at Evans Wall

Inside the hut - DJ's back, Paul, and David

Look Mom - no hands!

Julie and Kevin

Grounded iceberg

Visiting the Terra Nova hut (built by Robert Scott in 1911)

Anchor from the ship Aurora which broke free in 1915 and stranded a number of Shackleton's men at this hut

The hut and everything in it has been left the way it was......or restored to original positions

One of the dogs.... sad.

Penguins (tasty)

Inside the living quarters of the hut

Hmmm...science! Dead penguin on the desk (?)

Stuff on the table in the hut

Part of the lab

I wonder who wore these?

Seal blubber in the hut

Julie and the lab

Reindeer sleeping bags - would you want to sleep in that?

DJ checking out the skis

Climbing the hill behind the Terra Nova hut

Antarctica landscape

Penguin feathers - probably from a skua that ate the penguin.

Paul Dayton with Lance's classroom water drop!

The Paul Cuffee Water Drop in the dive locker preping for a dive

The Paul Cuffee Middle School water drop with Julie getting ready for a dive at Dayton's plateau

Water drop with Kevin and Stacy discussing the dive in front of the dive hole

In the touch tank with a huge pycnogonid

In the touch tank with an anemone

Pteropods in our ice hole!

Kevin ready to dive at Cinder Cones

Here go the goofy divers in their bunny boots and drysuit undies

The Tucker and the dive hut at Cinder Cones - we went on a wuick walk up the hill after the dive

Antarctic terrain

Big cracks in the sea ice and Turtle Rock in the background

Glaciers near Cape Evans

Kevin and Jennifer

Julie and Jennifer

Snow on the sea ice

Dive hut at Cinder Cones

Sea ice runway in the distance from McMurdo

Loading our crap up for New Harbor

Goofing off in the lab

Clear weather! The plane landed!

Hut Point and our next dive site once we get back

McMurdo, Discovery Hut, and Observation Hill. All the following photos are from the inside of Discovery Hut

The C17 arrives with freshies

This is me - I am smiling

Inside Discovery Hut

Seal blubber ready to melt and on the ax

The men hung blankets to make the space to heat smaller

Seals / seal blubber

Mt. Discovery and Discovery Hut

Getting Jennifer the Hotsy ready

Spider and Hotsy

Julie gets jellyfish paint

Tina the Pisten Bully

Freezing our way to the party

In the dive locker

Preparing drinks

Point of contact

Walking up Observation Hill

It was really windy at the top!

David flying in the wind

It was steep so we just did the penguin slide down

Fisher and David going down

Walking around Observation Hill

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