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Penguins, Playlists and Pics

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIQLaUy4k_E] Video from Robin Herzig, USAP contractor While we were in Davis Ward, penguins descended upon McMurdo. This is a video of the herd leaving town!    After being told about this by multiple people when we returned to McMurdo, we were able to find evidence of this on the...

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Days of Delays

I guess we shouldn’t be that surprised by now that we are still in McMurdo. A good thing we have had lots of practice in waiting, as Emilie put it earlier. Our first delay on the 31st was due to snowy weather in McMurdo. The C-17 didn’t even take...

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Back to Christchurch

Cindy, Nicole, Marc and I made it back to Christchurch! Yesterday, we had breakfast at 6 am and by 6:30 we were transported to the airfield (look at how huge our red transport vehicle is!). It took about 45 minutes to travel a few miles to the Phoenix landing/take-off...

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