Final Approach

Everyone’s been going a bit stir-crazy here at the end of a two week steam with little else to do but eat, sleep, and watch movies. But we’re making our final approach to the shelf and our first official station. The bad news is: satellite images show ice extending much further out than previously expected, and the Revelle is not an icebreaker. You know how in the movie Apollo 13 Tom Hanks and his buddies had to abandon the moon landing and instead slingshot around the thing? And there was that touching moment when Kevin Spacey and Nicholas Cage reach out and stare teary-eyed at the moon passing by... it’s so close, yet so far? Well apparently I’m about to become the Nicholas Cage of Antarctica, reaching out to the Ice Continent but not being able to touch it because of ice conditions. I guess I should rename the blog “The Danparktic Circumpolar Current” or something since I won’t actually be touching land. Oh well!