It has been a while!
I’m now stationed in the Antarctic for a few months. The journey down here took me through Australia, and New Zealand via Airliners, and finally on a U.S. military C-17 to McMurdo Antartica.
McMurdo reminds me of a typical northern town with different earth colored buildings on piles, no vegetation and surrounded by snow. There isn’t much snow left in town, and the temperature is a balmy 5 degrees today. Pretty typical to see people walking around in T-Shirts. Out my dorm room window I can see the ice shelf and the mountains in the background.
We park our aircraft down on the ice about an hours drive via a huge bus with HUGE wheels. From that vantage point we are surrounded by beautiful scenery including 2 volcanos, Mt. Erbus and Terror. Both active.
I haven’t done much flying yet, but I will be headed out to a camp on the Ice pretty soon. Looks like we will be stationed there for about 6 weeks. No internet, no showers, but at least we will have a phone.
I’m taking lots of pictures, but I won’t be able to post any when I’m camping.. But, I’ll save them for posting when I get back.
Very cool.
For a minute I thought, “why the heck would he go to Antarctica - in the Winter!” I forgot it was summer down under.
You get to spend some time in NZ at all? I spent 7 months down there this year, loved it.
You probably have to go through Christchurch to get to Antarctica, that is where we lived. Fantastic city. Great people. If you get to stay for a while try surfing on Sumner Beach. If you have to take lessons, there is a great guy, Aaron, that does surfing lessons. surfcoach.co.nz
Hi. I’ve been enjoying your pictures and posts since Inuvik. (While you were in the Maldives I wanted to ask if you’d update your About page and equipment list. And I wanted to ask if you’d indicate your camera settings. You see, I got into photography because of this website.) I would have commented or posted earlier, but seeing that your friends and family posts here I felt like an intruder. HOWEVER…The reason I’m posting now is that I have an acquaintance who’s going to Antarctica soon and spending about 6 weeks at a camp. I wonder if you will be in the same party or use the same facility or perhaps just cross paths. This means I’m almost an acquaintance. So, I hope before you leave for camp you could see if she’s in your party. Her name is Megan Berg. If you see her, you could mention that Jon and Maya (all the way from Lincoln, Nebraska) says hi.
Maybe you won’t be in the same party and maybe we won’t have an amazing two degrees of separation, but at least this gave me the excuse to write to you…
Well, two weeks later and you are nearly to the camp. Long trip but what an experience. I was impressed by Jon’s email above - how you influenced him into photography. Can’t get a better compliment than that. If you read this Jon, don’t worry about posting here as our entire family are avid photographers and I for one would be interested in seeing your progression.
Lee, take some great shots of the valcanoes.
so, are you changing the name of your site temporarily to “snowy sensor”?
Very nice picture. You’re lucky that you get to go all over the world.
I love the transition, from tropical rainforest, to snow barren mountains. You’re living the dream my friend