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December 2 continues:
	The ice caves were along here.		Looking back at the entrance from the inside.

The biggest room.		Neat shapes, huh?

This is the rounded frost.		Pointy frost.

	The blues.
December 2:
	This is a Hagglund.	Our particular vehicle was affectionately named Uncle Buck.	Some scenery along the way.

A couple of views from inside the front compartment.		Here's a view of the back compartment. Everybody took turns sitting in front and back.	We stop to dig up and inspect a working crack.

Here's the site of the instructors' hut, where we had our lessons and ate lunch.	Our excursion took us towards Mount Erebus.		Iceburg we visited.

Some more of the iceburg we visited.		The group climbs to the top.

The view we saw right before we slid down.	This is Big Razorback Island. It's very close to Erebus (15 or 20 miles).	We all eagerly go to look at the seals.	Here they are!

This is the bloody trail of a seal. They can be very territorial over openings in the ice.	A couple of skua among the seals.	Mom and pup.	This is the diver's hut. We had to shovel a path to the door.

I'm not sure I would want to scuba dive in 29 degree water!	Little Razorback Island.	These are pressure ridges, caused by the ice pushing on itself too much.	We start circling Little Razorback. These snow drifts kind of remind me waves frozen in mid-air.

Can you see the little icy prison?		The view back to the diver's hut.	Sleeping beauties.
	Zzz...

We learned that it is very important to look out for cracks and crevasses.

The seal hole, close and far.		Views of Little Razorback.

The instructor, Thai, explains how we are going measure the depth of the ice. He's holding a hand auger.	First we had to dig through all the snow to reach the sea ice.

Then we could drill down. We could tell when reached the water level because the auger started to fall.	A nearby glacier.
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