A blog from a science nut, computer geek, sometimes philosopher, and a human. Based out of Denver, with a love of Antarctica, I seem to wander the world so who knows where I'll be in 6 months.
So I’d highly recommend checking out my website for a few new videos. If this is the first time you’ve checked it out this year, you’ll probably see an eye opening one from new years eve. 😉 http://www.wonderfullyrich.net/Photos/theice/60southvideos.html Thanks guys Rich
One of my friends in supply asked me for a video I happened to take while outside in this negative twenty degree vessel offload because as I was walking out at about 3am, two of her loopy cohorts (nearing the end of the shift) decided the boxes were a crazy maze and started chasing each … Read more
So my last post brought up a good point. Where am I going, what am I doing? Well for the moment, I’m trying just to get off the Ice. Once off the ice which is a feat unto itself. Uggh! Once off the ice I’ll probably be hanging around New Zealand for 2 weeks or … Read more
Oh so the vessel has finally arrived! (Cargo Vessel that is) It’s only many days late and driving us buggers. The latter because it’s been changed so often it’s not funny and in the absence of hard news rumors is all we have to go by so we have been hee-ing and haw-ing about the … Read more
Rich, Kevin here, How are you doing? Kelly sends me all your blogs and it sounds like your at a very interesting place down there at the bottom of the world. Isn’t gravity wonderful. I’m still here in Massachusetts awaiting the word on from the Federal Gov. about collecting disability. I get calls … Read more
So there are natural green things here on or at least near the Antarctic continent. Now I’d border this on the edge of token green, as I certainly wouldn’t say it’s a lime, or a tree, or grass, but it still seems to be green. Mykle, my ex-cohort at the PC Shop (or something like … Read more
So I’m on the list that get’s the daily satellite images and I thought you might like to see where we are at and what the krasin’s channel looks like. Rich —–Original Message—–From: mcm.terascan@usap.gov [mailto:mcm.terascan@usap.gov]Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:36 AMTo: MCM-DL-TeraScan-DailyImagesSubject: 20 Jan 2006 Ross Island area sea ice & bergs Hi All, The … Read more
One is considered a man’s sport, the other a women’s domain. Down here, all lines seem to be a bit looser, or maybe the gender equality is finally becoming a reality. Over the last two month’s I’ve learned to do both. Stick welding and knitting have been added to my repertoire of random things I … Read more
I wrote this a month or so ago for the Antarctic Sun so the holiday season is a bit out of date, but it’s still an interesting piece. Rich This is probably the first time in my life I’ve been so deprived of smell. Sure I’m on the windiest, driest, coldest, an arguably the most … Read more
So it’s that time of the year. Even here in McMurdo, we suffer the tourist. The Krasin has beaten a path into us and the vessels can now arrive so tourist have started to arrive at random intervals. How odd that we as “residents” of McMurdo are amused at the tourist that come into our … Read more