EVEN MORE OF ANTARCTICA

This is the delta that I drive.  Looks pretty clean here.  They are from the ''70s and '80s and we have three of them (effectionately called Tina Maie, Gale, Dawn)  They can carry up to 21 pax.

Don't know if this picture was photo shopped or not but it sure is cute.  Haven't really seen any Emperor penguins this season.

This is a shot I took from a walk on the pressure ridges.  They are awesome.  They are formed by the tides pushing the
ice up against the land mass at Scott Base  (the Kiwi base)

Another shot of the pressure ridges.  The ice is so blue.

The two pictures above are taken at "Happy Camper."  This is where we go out and

practice living on the ice for two days....This is an actual Scott tent that the campers

can stay in or you can see the smaller single tents.  You practice finding lost people

in a white out.  Everyone puts a bucket over their head and works together to

figure out a way to find the poor victim (group effort).  Sometimes there is an acutal

whiteout and no bucket is needed.  You build ice walls and and we used to build

quincies (sort of like an igaloo that we slept in).  Now I just have to take a

5-hour review....lucky me.

This is a new van we got this year (I believe 15).  Some hold 11 and some 14 (really
swished in).  Very powerful and can plow throught the driifts on the road to the
airfield.  The vans now are filthy.  It's mudsville here.  We try to powerwash them
occasionally if the temperature is above freezing.  A losing battle.  Notice the little
triailer.  It really bumps around...backing up is a real art!!!!

The big old C-17 out on the ice runway.

This is a Basler (which is a retrofitted DC-12, tail dragger).  The planes behind
it are Twin Otters (all from Ken Borock out of Canada)  They can go to all the field camps and
drop off supplies and scientists.  They hop all over the place............

This is a Herc or a 130 that goes to the Pole and some other camps.  They can land with skis...amazing to see.

So you think my job is classy, eh?  I carried this "stuff" around in the back of my
van until we finally found out where to "Dump" it. This comes in from the field
camps.  The last container on the right is labeled human waste.  Yuk....