Feeder Flight from SANAE to NOVO for Alfons
Day 19; February 10, 2009; Vesleskaervet, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
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I have been awake now for over thirty hours, having just completed my light recording piece. As exhausted as I am, I deeply enjoy the space that I traverse during these long periods of documenting light. Watching, diligently, the subtle shifts in color and intensity—I am ever entranced by the grace of natural phenomena.
In the late afternoon, the feeder flight arrived to take Alfons to NOVO, where he will catch his flight back to Cape Town. We all went down to send him off, waving goodbye as he boarded the aircraft.
I also had a package arriving for me on this flight, which had been flown in from Cape Town the day before. But as I am entirely fatigued from my long shoot, I will save the adventure of this package, and its contents, for tomorrow.
It occurred to me, holding my parcel and watching the airplane wane against broad the sky, that I have not seen a single jet trail since I arrived in Antarctica. This is something quite remarkable, as the skies I’m used to are generally cluttered with the crisscrossing lines of airplane exhaust. I found myself relieved to see a sky that was entirely untainted.
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