December 10th – Day 61
Today I hiked the Pressure Ridges off Scott Base. They are amazingly beautiful. Shuttle Shelly and her husband Veto were the tour guides.
Veto led while Shelly brought up the rear. She stayed with me and took pix of me for me.
Weddell seals were pretty close to the trail. The closest one kept lifting his head looking at us as if to say “What is going ON here? I’m trying to take nap.” It kept wiggling to turn its back on us. It made big, obvious yawns hoping we’d all catch a clue and go away.
The pressure ridges are chunks of sea ice that have shifted and pushed up against the shoreline causing them to crumple up and make giant sculpture like formations.
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