Picture Gallery for Tue 2006-10-31 09:03:01 UTC

	Antarctica!
	Antarctica!
	Antarctica!
	One more shot of the cargo.
	Ice floes.
	The moon over the ice.
	Waiting to disembark after landing.
	Disembarking at the Ice Runway.
	"Ivan" the Terra Bus.
	More people deplaning.
	First impressions of the landscape: snow, rock, sky.
	Vehicles waiting to unload the plane.
	A converted truck. There's a few of these around.
	After all the passengers are out of the way, the real work can begin: unloading the cargo.
	A LC-130 "Hercules" waits beyond the C-17.
(4067x1265, 2944.89 kb) A view of the ice runway just before departing for the town.
	A jack-o-lantern trailer. How appropriate.
	Unloading the 17.
	Last look at the 17 as we head into town.
	Welcome to McMurdo Station.
	The outskirts of town.
	The buildings of McMurdo.
	The buildings of McMurdo.
	The buildings of McMurdo. The brown buildings that look like dorms are, in fact, dorms.
	Waiting for a delta to go by in downtown McMurdo.
	The Chalet.
	Unloading Ivan. Remember, it's Halloween; the driver doesn't always dress like that.
	View of the Ice Runway from the Chalet.
	Flags at the Chalet.
	The Arrival Brief.
	The two waves meet.
	The view from the end of the hall in my dorm looking over the ice.
	An officially embossed copy of Webster's owned by the US Government.