2-09-12
We had a beautiful and balmy (22F), windless evening, so after pickle ball, I decided to finally go for the polar plunge. I walked out to hut point where the ice had been moved away by the icebreaker and there is some relatively open water. Of course, during the night, the open water had freezed a tiny bit since it had been calm so there were thin chunks of ice still floating everywhere. To jump in, I walked out on an ice flow beached on shore and jumped in. As I was drying myself off at the point a couple minke whales came in right near where I had jumped in, which was pretty cool.
2-11-12
We had our final night shift roll call (free drinks provided for by the boss), which was fun b/c all of us night shifters in ATO/Shuttles have become quite close. Later that evening (after us night shifters had gone to bed and then woken up again), we had our shuttle group picture, which included a ride out in the delta with a huge cooler of jungle juice. After the photo and our "graduation" ceremony, we all headed out to the bars and the Hut 10 jano party for some dacning. The sun is getting close to setting at night, and it was absolutely gorgeous as we left the party with an orange glow all around and the sun reflecting of the still water, but being interupted in areas by floating icebergs.
We had a beautiful and balmy (22F), windless evening, so after pickle ball, I decided to finally go for the polar plunge. I walked out to hut point where the ice had been moved away by the icebreaker and there is some relatively open water. Of course, during the night, the open water had freezed a tiny bit since it had been calm so there were thin chunks of ice still floating everywhere. To jump in, I walked out on an ice flow beached on shore and jumped in. As I was drying myself off at the point a couple minke whales came in right near where I had jumped in, which was pretty cool.
2-11-12
We had our final night shift roll call (free drinks provided for by the boss), which was fun b/c all of us night shifters in ATO/Shuttles have become quite close. Later that evening (after us night shifters had gone to bed and then woken up again), we had our shuttle group picture, which included a ride out in the delta with a huge cooler of jungle juice. After the photo and our "graduation" ceremony, we all headed out to the bars and the Hut 10 jano party for some dacning. The sun is getting close to setting at night, and it was absolutely gorgeous as we left the party with an orange glow all around and the sun reflecting of the still water, but being interupted in areas by floating icebergs.
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