Laura On Ice

As promised, here are some more pictures from the Cape Evans trip:

Here I am standing out on the sea ice. In the “summer” those rocks in the background are islands. They form a great big ring, and are part of the caldera of an extinct volcano. Little black dots in the background = penguins!!

My co-worker Aaron took this picture of the penguins - next time I come down I’m bringing a much better camera, like the one he brought.

Here is the hut, looking from the back side, out to sea. The mountains in the distance are the Royal Society Range, and all the area between the mountains and the hut is frozen ocean.

The day after we went out, a grantee group was taking a tracked truck out to their field site when they radioed in that their truck was on fire. Some folks managed to get some pictures of it, and here they are:

Here’s the truck burning. This picture was (obviously) taken from a helicopter.

By the time anyone could get to the truck, this was what was left:

Surprisingly, it burned fast and thoroughly, so it really didn’t melt far into the ice.

So that’s all from McMurdoland today…hope all are well and I love all the comments!!

PS Sexy Beans rock!!!!!