Here is a short video of my first steps on Antarctica.
The landscape is beautiful but while being able to see the beauty, it is also obvious how very desolate, harsh and dangerous it is.
View of Mt. Discovery from McMurdo Station.
The New Zealand Scott Base as seen from Ivan on Ice road from airfield going toward McMurdo Station.
A common sight in McMurdo. A Bell 212 with a sling load returning from a remote location on the Ice.
While each picture is beautiful, I'm willing to bet that this one will be the most popular for this journal! That black blob is a seal! We've seen several at a distance out on the ice within walking distance of McMurdo. I am guessing this seal is about eight feet long.
Large seal relaxing on sea ice near Ross Island.
Ross Island/ McMurdo Station Fun Fact
McMurdo sits at 77 degrees 51 minutes S, 166 degrees 40 minutes E. It is a coastal station built on the bare volcanic rock of the Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island in the shadow of the active volcano Mount Erebus. It is the farthest south solid ground accessible by ship. Although it is accessible by ship only during the Antarctic summer - and only for a few weeks each year when the ice can be broken up by ice breakers.
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