Trisha's interesting Antarctic finds
Exploration ICEBLOCK
A collaborative exploration of the Chilly Continent
VIDEO CLIP TO VIEW: Click here to see what Trish finds on top of the sea ice and how it comes to be there.
Below are photos of the fun, interesting and curious things I discovered during my stay at New Harbour.
Hope you are just as fascinated as I was and enjoy my Antarctic discoveries...
A small sea ice 'mushroom'.
A large sea ice 'mushroom'. The rugged sea ice has many strange shapes from the 10 to 11 years of freezing, expanding and cracking!
A strange shape in the sea ice. How do you think this formed?
An icy stag
An ice cat?
A cat in Antarctica?
It really is a cat!
Can you spot the dog rock?
This rock must get lots of strong 'katabatic' winds!
Even life for a rock in Antarctica is hard
Can you spot the seal?!
At first I thought this was a curvy rock. It really is a mummified seal! Could be decades or even hundreds of years old.
The rocks around New Harbour are often smoothed by the strong winds that blow so often here.
White and black on white
Shadows journey to an iceberg
Iceberg and Erebus... Strange how they almost have the same shape.
Iceberg beauty
The face of the iceberg
Conquering the iceberg!
Icicles on the sea ice
Mountains upon long icicles.
Frozen ice bubbles
Ice patterns
A long shadow run late in the evening.
Stiltwalking in Antarctica
Snow melt pattern on the sea ice.
Snow lace
A snowbird
As the snow began to melt it left this patchwork effect (click on the photo to see the full effect enlarged)
A scallop shell that got stuck to anchor ice on the seafloor and slowly travelled to the top of the sea ice.
A scallop shell with sea sponge attached, on the sea ice.
A frozen sea spider on the sea ice!
Luca, one of the divers, brought this up from under the ice to show me...
...It's one of those Nemetians (long sea worm, slimy and highly acidic!! uggghh). I let it go down the other dive hole and it was seen the next day by another diver, happy and munching on brittlestars!
Cairn on high
Viewfinder rock
A rock house?
An old shack I came across while walking up the Dry Valleys
Inside the shack reveals it used to be an old NZ emergency storage perhaps.
