Day 52- December 1st

December 1^st –Day 52

What an Epic Day!!

I was in the cargo bay talking with Shannon (cargo supervisor) when Dacre came in all excited to show her pix of the Adelie penguins he just saw on the ice road to the air field.  I was ready to be all jealous, until Shannon says “you and Christen should grab a vehicle and go find them.” She is so cool!

While I ran down to my room to grab my camera, Christen procured a van for our journey.

We went on the ice road toward the ice runway and were almost there when we spotted them right there at the side of the road 20 yards in. A pair of Adelie penguins. Gloriously cute, bright blue- eyed and snuggly looking. They didn’t do much, just watched us as we watched them.

It was Christen’s and mine farewell trip down the ice road.  Ice town ( airfield and runway operations) was moving to Pegasus for the rest of the season. Temps are warming up, so the sea ice isn’t the safest place to be landing aircraft in a another week or two. So it moves to the permanent Ross Sea Ice Shelf that takes and hour longer to get to.

Bottom line is:

I SAW PENGUINS!!