Hi Grade ones - it is my last night at the rig - our work is all done - so we made some time to go out to the edge of the ice right up to the Ross Sea! And guess what we saw: Penguins, lots of penguins. We saw mostly Adelies but also a couple of big Emperors! We rode the snow mobiles out from the rig over the thick old ice and then right onto the new ice which was only about 20 cm thick. It is strange ice because it is salty. Can you see the Ross Sea just beyond the ice. This picture is nearly at midnight
Guess what else we saw - big fat seals too. They are not at the ice edge but they stay by big fractures in the ice where they can make holes that they can slip into the water. I think that this may have been a mother seal because I could hear something from the hole first, then the mother jumped into the hole and they were gone. She was very big - more than 2 metres long!
Flat Stanley - get out of the hole!!! That is not for people but for seals! That water is also -1.8 degrees Centigrade - you will get hypothermia! Come out quick and get some hot chocolate and chocolate bars! Did you bring your dry socks too! Grade ones - it is very good that you put a plastic wrap on him otherwise he would really freeze on the snow mobile trip back to the rig!
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