After saying our farewells, and waving goodbye to the remaining Polies who would spend the next 8 months winteringover, we boarded the plane and hunkered down for a long day of air travel back to civilization- and it was long: a 5 ½ hour flight from the Pole to McMurdo, a 3 hour layover, and [...]
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The Last Day
The Galley was unsettlingly empty that morning at breakfast. The line for eggs was short, the juice dispensers never ran out, and the pile of dirty plates in the dishpit was almost non-existent. Most people had flown out over the last few days, leaving the station with a skeleton crew- just enough manpower to keep [...]
Camera in Hand
Any time you spend an extended amount of time in one place, walking around every day with your camera in hand, diligently documenting the in’s and out’s of everyday life, you are bound to end up with a lot of photos, especially if that place is somewhere as unique as the South Pole. Together, Kacey [...]