Hello Everyone! The weather subsided today, just in time for Christmas Eve. I decided to take a walk out to Hut Point, where the Discovery Hut is, and took some nice photos. To illustrate how clear the air is down here, those mountains that are forcing that warm South Pacific air to condense are almost 80 miles away!
That very ugly bird is called a Skua. It's the local version of a seagull. This guy is very fat off of leftover human food, and is a good thief to boot. Several people down here have had food stolen from their very hands by these crafty fowl.
When I got to the end of Hut Point, I was surprised to see that through a break in the frozen ice of McMurdo Sound, there was a Weddel Seal convention. These guys were popping out of the water, one by one, and laying out to soak up some rays on this wonderful tropical heatwave of a 30 degree day.
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