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Antarctic rainbow...

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I didn't have my camera with me yesterday when the rainbow was there; but Mike Rice, our comms tech, was able to get a panorama of it. This is the first rainbow I've seen down here and it was pretty amazing. Courtesy of Mike Rice
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All packed...

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The last two days before I leave have been quite hectic. One day of orientation with the IT folks in Denver, and one day of orientation just for the winterover crew. Because I was local, I didn't get to stay in a hotel like the others and had to commute to Centennial on south side of Denver both days. That, coupled with a lack of sleep due to the excitement factor, made for some very long days. All ready for a winter in Antarctica Anyway, several people have asked me what I'm bringing down with me. They supply extreme cold weather (ECW) gear that you get issued in Punta Arenas, Chile. These are the classic red down parkas with the fur around the hood that you see in all the Antarctica "hero" shots. They give you a bunch of other stuff as well. When I looked at a bunch of YouTube videos of Palmer though, everybody was wearing their outdoor gear from home. When I asked about this, everybody said you just use the ECW gear for dirty work-line handling for the shi...
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Final post from Antarctica?...

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This will probably be my last post from Antarctica. The ship arrived yesterday with the summer crew, the first time we've seen it since June. There are a lot of people on station now, and it seems very crowded and noisy. The winterovers have been hiding out in each other's rooms, kind of shell shocked by all the excitement. The next week will be super busy as we turn the station over to the summer crew. We head back to Punta Arenas on Saturday, with a 4 or 5 day passage up the peninsula and across the Drake. Then a day of flying and I'm back home. Courtesy of Charles Keating Thanks so much for reading, and I hope that this blog gave you a sense of what my experience was like down here. I'm sorry that my blogging tapered off towards the end, but as they say down here about the end of the season, I was getting a little toasty. I'll see you all in a little bit, and take care in the meantime... P.s. Above is a time lapse of the ship arriving yesterday courtes...
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