Well, this is the big one. The day has arrived. McMurdo was already quite overwhelming, but this journey tops everything. Again, not much sleep is given to the passengers of flight P282 out of Willie air field. Well, it wasn’t that early, the plane was boarded at eight in the morning. This was a C-130, a smaller cargo plane with skies attached to the landing gear. The flight took us not more than three hours. The plane has plenty of port holes where we could see mountains covered in snow and ice and the glaciers flowing down from the Antartic plateau. The windows of the plane were rather dirty, though, so the pix turned out a bit murky. Oh well….

And then we touched at about 11am NZ time. A step and I was out of the plane, breathing SP air (-27C) on beautiful sunny day. Now, the view here isn’t nearly as spectacular as in McMurdo, but the station and smaller buildings sitting on this endless white plane of ice, well…. It is a sight to be remembered…. However, you’ll have to wait for the next post for pictures from the Pole!