The First Few Moments

      Hello, Welcome to my photo/journalistic interpretations of my time here in Antarctica. A little back story, I am a 14 and 3/4 year veteran of the US Navy. I was sitting pretty working with great people for a great cause on a Destroyer when it all came crashing down. I was inexplicably forced out of the military that I thought I was going to see until the end. Make no bones, I enjoyed every second of the military, just not the way we parted ways. While lollygagging between numerous ways to occupy myself, either making end meet with employment or by utilizing the GI BILL, a once in a lifetime opportunity via e-mail. A stint as a maintenance man on the continent of Antarctica. Of course, there was a little hesitation with my family, but in times like these, we have to do whats best for the whole. I arrived here on October 2nd of the year 2012. I have some catching up to do here as I do have numerous photos of my time here. I will do my best to casually place photos here and answer questions through various social means.

One of the first pictures taken when I got down here at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Another View looking toward the mountains.

Still, another View

Picture of the developing Ice Pier. This will be in use when the Sound's ice sheet breaks apart and ships can start ferrying in and out supplies.

      To Mrs. Bouvier's class in Massachusetts. You asked me if I had seen any animals since I have been down here. Well, the answer is not, not yet, but as the weather warms up here (we are currently entering the summer) the ice sheets will break and penguins, seals and whales may be seen. You bet your life I will have my camera on me to take those pictures. Also, you asked how could there be an active volcano way down near the South Pole. Well, the simple answer is due to some thing called plate tectonics. The earth is made of of continents and most of the continents are floating on huge masses called plates. at he edge of the plates are many long major and minor fault lines that create earthquakes. The also can contain small pockets of magma(lava) that can sneak there way up through the crust and create an eruption. After millions of years and hundred or even thousands of eruptions, they create the conical shaped mountains we can see as a volcano. Mount Erebus, is situated on what we call the Pacific Ring of Fire. en-circling the Pacific Ocean are hundreds and hundreds of active an extinct volcanoes. That is how even this far south, and this frigid climate we can have an active piece of earth. Now, I really have no clue when it erupted last, nor do I expect one while I am here. It is just steaming right now and that is the way I would like that to stay. If you have any more questions about geology, I am sure your teacher or your scholl library or even the internet can feed your inquisitive minds. Well, I am going to go. I will add more pictures to catch up on here. have fun following along.