We have water!

After hearing the buzz for the last month that the icebreaker ship was on the way I finally believe it. I came back from a run yesterday to find a huge ship crashing through the solid sea ice and cutting a channel. I used to work on the runway right where the ship was zig zagging and making water where there used to be land. I saw the ship on the horizon, but it is the strangest thing to actually see it here, only a few hundred yards away floating where I was driving trucks and loading Air Force jets only weeks ago. The Russian icebreaker will make more rounds to cut up the bay for the next few days, and then it will dock. In a few weeks we will get our resupply vessel. This ship is McMurdo's main way of keeping supplies running in and out for sustaining overall life on station. The plane cargo that I work with deals more with science-related material and food to sustain immediate needs. The wildlife around here should be out in full very soon. We are already spotting seals regularly, and people have seen penguins within a few hundred yards of MacTown. There is new life to McMurdo Station, the place is buzzing.