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We spent four days here in an area called the Dry Valleys on the main continent of Antarctica. Our main base was about an hour heli flight from here over at New Zealand's Scott Base. This place does not sound very remote, but often times the weather is so bad that supplies or pickups can be delayed days or weeks. We ended up needing to stay one extra night because the weather was too bad for Hef to pick us up! I actually took this on the final morning… you can see what beauty the bad weather left behind. See that glacier in the background? It was about an hour to hike over there… a hike I made many times!
The city looks like a thousand sparkling jewels at the bottom of the sea, and the Burj Khalifa is the most grand. I have absolutely never seen anything like this in my life and I can't get over how full of awe I was the entire time. I've seen a lot of pretty things, but nothing compares to this. It is probably the same feeling the first hot-air-baloonist had when flying over Paris at night 100 years ago. I took thousands of photos and it will take me a sweet forever to go through all of them, but here is another for you.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
I kept missing the penguins on this walk around the sea ice on Antarctica! I would come around a wall of ice to see these trails here and there. I'm no biologist, but I did identify them as penguin-belly-slide-trails, I think! You can see the rut left by their belly and where the little flippers would steer them this way and that. I did get to see a lot of penguins sliding around, but never quite this close… maybe next time! - Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
