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| The view from Cape Hallett - wowza! |
Early in the season, the environmental department planned to go to Cape Hallett to do a partial cleanup of debris that was in the midst of the penguin colony. This debris is remnants of a joint Kiwi/US base that operated from 1963 until the mid-1980s. We were shooting to do the cleanup before the only landing spot (on the sea ice) melts away and before the penguins lay eggs.
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| Glaciers as far as the eye can see. |
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| Digging out a fuel cache in the middle of BFE. |
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| Nate and me in the twin otter. |
It's a 2.5-3 hour flight from McMurdo Station to Cape Hallett and my first flight in a twin otter. The plane's range is not far enough to get us there on a tank of gas so we stopped at a fuel drum cache at Cape Reynolds. I found this a bit unnerving given that we were landing on fairly rough snow in the middle of nowhere, looking for some mostly buried drums of fuel. Seemed to me like a lot of things could go wrong but all went to plan and we had a lovely day cleaning up as much as we could.
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| Penguins and glaciers |
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| The weather guys fixing up the remote weather station. |
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| Inside of the twin otter plane |
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| A male bringing his mate a stone for their nest. |
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| Square glaciers! |
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| Big berg stuck in the ice |
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| Heading back to the twin otter. |
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