priligy purchase in india Next season we will be working in the Darwin Glacier region, so to try and locate good camping spots and places that planes and/or helicopters can drop us off to do research, we took a reconnaissance Twin Otter ski plane flight today. We took off from the sea ice runway – the sea freezes solid during winter here and makes a great place to land planes (until it gets too thin – at the moment it is about 2m thick). We flew about an hour south then up the Darwin and Byrd Glaciers. We took a lot of photos and video – here is a sample from our adventure. There are a few more videos on our pictures/videos page, or you can find them directly on our youtube channel.
Twin Otter takeoff
Inside the Twin Otter
A few photos:
Our Twin Otter for the day. Sitting on the sea ice runway
Twin Otter parking, sea ice runway
Ski-equipped twin otter
the boys, ready to go in the backseat
backseat
the business end…
view out the front window on the runway to two Hercules aircraft
Your safety is our first priority
In the air over the Darwin Glacier
Brown Hills area
The Darwin Glacier
South side of the Darwin Glacier
Landing on the Darwin Neve. The glacier here is hard blue ice and we needed crampons to walk around without slipping.
John taking photos
Mt Discovery (an old volcano)
Boys watching the scenery
Mulock Glacier
Roadend Nunatak
Melt pools in the Brown Hills
Side glacier on the north side of the Byrd Glacier
Texture on the surface of the Byrd Glacier
Mt Discovery and McMurdo on our landing approach
Mt Discovery again
Boys enjoying doing some science!
North side of the Byrd Glacier
Head of the Darwin Glacier
Bryan taking care of business