Weekend Camping :)

A nice little Saturday night camping trip out by Castle Rock on a sunny, warm and windless night does a soul good after a week of seemingly never ending work! It was fun to be able to have a tent all to myself and curl up into a cozy sleeping bag and scrunch down into the darkness to avoid all the light that never goes away! From where we camped we could see the sea ice slowly approaching as the Swedish icebreaker ship the Oden moves slowly up and down the channel opening up the ice so that the fuel tank and re-supply ship can come in a few weeks to McMurdo. We climbed up Castle Rock and enjoyed the endless beauty of a still night in a world of snow, ice and mountains...

the Oden breaks away the sea ice in the distance

"Car camping" with a Piston Bully









The little apple warming station









Mt. Erebus

Recebba

Mandy

View from the top of Castle Rock of our tents below in the snow

someone got his face rubbed into the snow

The view from my little tent in the morning.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love the icebreaker picture with all the different shades in the ice and mountains. Do you have a higher resolution version?