Cross your fingers!

This is a Satellite photo of the McMurdo Bay and Ross Sea. The small slit of water is the channel that the Oden and Polar Sea icebreakers have created. The black dot that the channel is leading towards is Observation hill and McMurdo Staion. The mountains in the bottom left corner are, I believe, the Royal Society Mountains.
Open water is only a few miles away! We are are crossing our fingers every night in hope of waking up to open water. Some Orca's have already snuck into McMurdo Bay via the channel, which hasn't been accessible to them for seven years, to feed in fresh hunting grounds. The fat seals, which have been sunbathing carefree all summer, better get in shape quickly.