<\/a>Messy highbay <\/div>
During the flight, we would spend a few hours after our shifts packing and cleaning.<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Anne and the icebreaker <\/div>
And cold wind<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Broken up ice <\/div>
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<\/a>The crack and I <\/div>
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<\/a>A seal swims by <\/div>
And is far more entertaining than the icebreaker<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>A seal in the ice pool <\/div>
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<\/a>Two seals, playing <\/div>
There were six at one point!<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Icebreaker in the frozen distance <\/div>
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<\/a>The ice pier <\/div>
Ready for vessels to arrive<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Trail through the hills <\/div>
I made a point of walking outside<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Dark sphere <\/div>
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<\/a>The icebreaker circles town <\/div>
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<\/a>Lots of seals <\/div>
Clustered around holes in the ice<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Roger on the Observation Hill loop <\/div>
We was in town for a few days on his way back from the South Pole<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Icebreaker into port <\/div>
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One day during SPIDER’s flight, Anne and I walked down to Hut Point to check out the arriving icebreaker. We encountered some seals down there, which also break the ice by chomping holes. They make great huffing noises as the surface and breathe, which made them easy and fun to spot. I liked this so much that I decided to go for a hike every morning, after each night of watching SPIDER. Following the icebreaker, a series of other boats arrived. The main resupply ship arrived just before my return from the South Pole, as did some whales. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}