Penguin!!!

I saw my first penguin last night. I have been leading recreation trips to Cape Evans, about 15 miles from the station over the sea ice, in an effort both to get of station for a few precious hours once in a while, and also in the hope of seeing penguins. I was on my way out last night on just such a trip, when we saw a little Adeladie penguin right outside the station. I mean, so close, you could throw a rock from the waste water treatment plant and hit him. Not that I recomend that, being against the Antarctic Conservation Treaty and all, the NSF looks down on that sort of behavior. But it was funny, to be going all that way out on the ice looking and finding one so close to town, the drunko's in the bar could staggar down to oogle.



The helipad is in the background, and those orange pylons are there because he is on the road to the ice runway. So why did the penguin cross the road? To avoid being run over by the big-ass truck barreling down on him.