02-27-2004, 01:42 AM
[cool][blue][size 1]Great pics, my friend. Thanks for sharing them.[/size][/blue]
[#0000ff][size 1]Reminds me of the iceout float tubing trip I made on Starvation about this time of year. The wind came up and blew a big sheet of thick ice toward me...where I was trapped against the dam. I barely got out of the water and ran up the bank before the ice hit the dam...and pushed almost all the way up to the road.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]I didn't get caught by the ice, but I split out the crotch in my waders, in my exertion to get ashore. That cold water on a sensitive area definitely gave me some incentive to reach a dryer and warmer environment.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]The Antarctic is surprisingly full of life. I read a piece in National Geographic a few years ago that showed them fishing down through a hole in the ten foot deep ice. They were catching huge grouper like fish. Amazing. I would hate to have to drill a hole in that stuff with a hand auger.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]Reminds me of the iceout float tubing trip I made on Starvation about this time of year. The wind came up and blew a big sheet of thick ice toward me...where I was trapped against the dam. I barely got out of the water and ran up the bank before the ice hit the dam...and pushed almost all the way up to the road.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]I didn't get caught by the ice, but I split out the crotch in my waders, in my exertion to get ashore. That cold water on a sensitive area definitely gave me some incentive to reach a dryer and warmer environment.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]The Antarctic is surprisingly full of life. I read a piece in National Geographic a few years ago that showed them fishing down through a hole in the ten foot deep ice. They were catching huge grouper like fish. Amazing. I would hate to have to drill a hole in that stuff with a hand auger.[/size][/#0000ff]
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