Weekly snapshot #5

I think this week's pic is pretty much identical to last week's, except that you can tell that at noon the sun is now not making it too far above the horizon each day. But the weather remains mild (for comparison, it's -57F at Pole today), and while it definitely feels like things are changing in the skies, that mostly takes place hours before and after these noontime shots. And all in all, the weather is beautiful as winter is slowly but surely closes in!

A little bonus for you today: Kiwi Anthony Powell, who has spent seasons at McMurdo as well as at New Zealand's Scott Base, 4 miles from us, is the filmmaker of the documentary "A Year On Ice." If you haven't seen that, I'd really recommend it for an idea of the culture on station here in the winter. (Also, you can see on camera the woman who was my predecessor at the South Pole store and helped me get the job there, starting me on this store-running path.) In the meantime, Powell has released this video, from footage taken on an underwater camera near said Kiwi base down the road, of a minke whale--beautiful!