It seems slightly wrong to be able to send blog posts from a remote location in Antarctica but it does mean that I get to tease you all with photos, so it’s not going to stop me!
This year we flew down in a C130 Hercules which made for a different experience. Imagine sitting in a deck chair for eight hours with your knees touching your neighbours, inside a cake tin, next to the cake mixer. Not the most comfortable of flights and definitely limited inflight entertainment.
So it was a grateful plane of well-insulated sardines that landed at the Pegasus airstrip out on the ice shelf.
From the plane, it was a 60 minute trundle in Ivan the Terra Bus around the edge of the iceshelf to Scott Base and McMurdo. That’s a door to door service of about 13 hours.
We’ve spent the last few days at Scott Base organising our field gear and getting ready for heading out to Cape Bird for a season of wrangling Adelie penguins.
Listful thinking 