dish pit & fata morgana

had to do a shift in the galley this morning. during the preseason everybody on station gets one of these. nsf budget cuts mean fewer janitors and dishwashers. 4.5 hrs of washing pots and pans. forgot my ipod so listened to "ice radio" which is mostly armed services feed with an occassional spot by our local media guy. odd commercials, well not really commercial more like psa. lots of stuff about depression. go figure.

in the afternoon saw the fata morgana. mirage, optical illusions. things get stretched vertically. not sure what causes them, something about a temperature inversion. looking out our second story window across the ice shelf, darker lines where the ice meets the continent looked like cliffs. there are no cliffs there. another time a plane out on the ice runway looked like several stacked on top of each other. crazy stuff.