More ice today. And here is me and Charisma trying to take a cute photo, which is then cancelled by an avalanche. A lot of ice and snow just fell into the water with a
More ice today.
And here is me and Charisma trying to take a cute photo, which is then cancelled by an avalanche. A lot of ice and snow just fell into the water with a huge splash. Except for the wind, waves and birds, Antarctica looks extremely quiet. But if you could film it and fast-forward the film, it’d be the most lovely continent ever, since this ice is moving all the time. Very avalanchy.
Anyway, here is the post-avalanche photo. We survived! Charisma is a product designer for Google btw. So if you’ve ever used Google Drive or something similar, then she might have done those details that you love! I’m leaving Dropbox for example, since they don’t just state anywhere how much storage you’re using, but just trying to get more and more money. It feels like a dying company, just getting what they can before crushing. But where Charisma works, the shit gets real. Buy a stock, and be one of the haves in a future dystopia of haves and have-nots.
Then we photoed caves. The red and dark-green fields are Antarctic moss, the few plants the continent has.
The light-green patches are water very very slowly coming out from the stone, being all coloured by the stone’s inside.
We were supposed to visit the Argentina station today, but some kind of bureaucracy made it too difficult. Maybe we didn’t pay our bribes. But just look at this picture to see how perfect the Argentinian colours are for Antarctica.
In the afternoon, it was time for us to take a picture! Here’s the older gentleman that talked to me on the first day of the ship, posing for a picture with Jesper, the Dane. I won’t tell which one of them that after this picture, grabbed his clothes and ran inside.
In the afternoon we went to an English base.
It’s the oldest base in the Antarctica, called ”Base A”, and is nowadays a museum.
Here’s the porn they had in the toilet.
Oh, and here is an English map showing Chile, the Falklands and Antarctica. Do you see that Argentina is missing? That’s very interesting! Like an English response to all the Falkland/Malvinas issues. Nationalism is a two-country thing.
Maybe I do like penguins more than sea lions. I’ve heard some shit talk about sea lions, how they actually just hate each other, and are snuggling just because they’re freezing, but actually start each morning with a huge fight. I’m puzzled.
But if I love penguins the most, then it’d definitely be these urban penguins. The English base was left all empty for a while, and when the English came back, the buildings were packed with penguins. If all humans suddenly disappeared, then someone would live in your apartment. An urban wolf perhaps? And what do we have here, if not our first child! Just to the right of the stone thing in the middle. Born today, as the first of them all.
Here’s a better picture of the same guy, taken by Renato, our expert photographer. They’re born between Christmas and the New Year, so this is an early penguin guy, ready to take on the world by lying on ice, walking around, looking curious at humans etc.
We got fog today, making the mountains all disappear, except for the non-snowy parts that sometimes showed through. This is the tallest continent on the planet, where the average height is 2000 km above the sea level. Add to that the ice that is sometimes up to 4 km thick, and you get an icy Himalaya, 1.5 times the size of China.
I was toying with the idea of Trump/Jinping actually hating penguins, but the climate change is actually good for the penguins, who find more and more land on Antarctica. Well, it’s at least good in the short term. Sooner or later, we’ll get land predators on the continent, and the penguins are suddenly just walking pieces of meat. St George’s island was already packed with rats, who ate the penguin eggs when they could. Humans have now, apparently, removed all the rats. Humans are protecting the planet with their little finger, while constantly kicking it in the guts with its legs. And the planet itself is a rather rowdy beast too, changing all the times.
Then we had dinner, and then I went to sleep. Even I need to just rest now and then!