Josh!
Posted on November 23, 2011
Speaking of giant ice-javelins, now seems like a good time to introduce Intrepid Team Member Josh:
layer cake
Posted on November 22, 2011
When the glacier’s face calves, we get a new look at the inside. To give you an idea of scale here, the cliff face is several hundred feet tall. Twenty-foot ice javelins? Yes please! (I was almost a quarter mile away when I took this photograph, and you’d be an idiot to get much closer.) See all those horizontal stripes? Each layer took about 150 years to form.
your house could fit inside this iceberg
Posted on November 21, 2011
Wouldn’t that be fun? To have a house in the middle of a giant ice-lagoon?
This big boy rolled in about a week ago, and seems to have beached himself. Last year’s Big Beached Berg got a name (Mark Wahl-berg), and since this one is at least as large, I think he deserves a name, too. Suggestions?
got laid
Posted on November 13, 2011
…the first penguin eggs of the season, that is. Look at these proud parents:
I am very excited. That’s easy for me to say, because unlike these penguins I don’t have to spend the next month fasting while I diligently keep my gestating baby warm, simultaneously fending off predators. Seriously, everywhere you look here it’s like a quintessential nature documentary. You can practically hear David Attenborough’s voice with every breeze.
In other news: a giant HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my big bro, Drew. I wish I could be in North Carolina to celebrate with you.
the sky is backwards
Posted on November 4, 2011
Rex (our research associate / weatherman / band’s lead guitar) took a photo of the Moon here, and a few hours later had a Northern-Hemisphere friend in Texas take a photo, too…
Gawrsh, crazy southern hemisphere! We are far from home.
Out of the 34 people here, THERE ARE TWO NAMED ZENA
Posted on November 2, 2011
Yeah, you heard me right. The other one is Palmer Station’s construction superintendent, and took this awesome photo:
photo by Zenobia Evans
