Thursday, December 22, 2016

McMurdo Season 6 - Day 81

Current Weather 32F Partly Cloudy

Happy Holidays to everyone!  I am looking forward to another 2 day weekend this weekend to celebrate Christmas.  Paula will be working at Willy Field on Saturday when the big town holiday meal will be happening, so she will be coming into town for the first meal seating and I will meet her for Christmas dinner with the rest of the Willy crew.

This weeks big news is that we will be flying to Black Island tomorrow, Friday Dec. 22nd, for the day to perform a fire inspection.  Black Island is a operations based field camp about 40 miles south of McMurdo that provides all of our communications with the outside world.  I should have some photos from that trip.

I have a few random photos to share today.  Most of which are from the shared folder here in McMurdo, so the ones that look really good I didn't take.


 These first two are from LDB.  Which stands for Long Duration Ballon.  This is a NASA project that is a very high altitude balloon (120,00 feet) that carries several scientific experiments as the payload.  It will circle around the continent many times before it comes back down.  There are actually 3 of these that were launched this season.  Checkout here: https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/antarctica/payloads.htm
To get more info on the experiment.



These two photos are just great images.  There are from Pegasus a month or so ago.  Just great photos of the C-17 and the Royal Society Range in the background.


Here is a photo just for Brian.  This is what you need to ask for, for your next bucket truck.  Nothing says Florida like 6x6.


Last week we were finally able to get a live fire extinguisher training in at the fire station.  Always fun to play with fuel and fire.


And lastly a good pose from the Skua in front of the Skua bin.

That is it for me tonight.  I have to be at the Helo pad at 07:30.  Off to be to shake the last of the crud out of me.  

More to come soon.
R.J.

1 Comments:

Blogger Mike said...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Paula!

8:36 PM  

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