Blackie's South Pole Adventure

Brian and Blackie have just returned home from their latest adventure. I think Blackie is getting tired. She has logged thousands and thousands of miles these last few months and gone almost from pole to pole. I must admit to be a bit envious of her experiences.


This time around their destination was Christchurch, New Zealand, McMurdo Station, Antarctica and the South Pole.

Blackie was not thrilled with the very long commercial flight to NZ. She much preferred the daily trips from McMurdo Station to the pole on the LC-130.

Here Blackie made sure Brian didn't miss any

of his switches in the Engineer's seat of the LC-130

Hmmm...who is this monkey trying to take over my territory

Objective complete...the South Pole

Blackie thought the new South Pole Station was quite impressive, but not as interesting as the old dome station. She is sure the people will find it more pleasant to live in. They will be removing the dome within the next year or two. They were in the process of digging it out preparing it for disassembly.

Here she helps Brian off-load fuel at

the South Pole from the Hercules

During their time in Antarctica, they transported Ann Curry from NBC and the Today Show crew to the South Pole. Blackie is a wise cat and wasn't overly impressed with all the hubbub over their national coverage...all in a days work.

They also had some excitement has they had to do an emergency evacuation from the South Pole of a worker who was seriously injured. Nothing is common place or easy when you are working at 10,000 ft. with temps well below zero.