Northern Life
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That Iceberg is blocking my view
At the end of August that year, I arrived at the cabin one afternoon to discover that a large iceberg was grounded offshore in front of it. Distances and such can be hard to judge here, things seem a lot closer than they are. But to give you an idea this iceberg was 80 feet
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Apologies
Yesterday the Federal Government apologized in Arctic Bay, to people relocated from Kinngait, Pangnirtung, and Mitamitalik to Dundas Harbour on Devon Island. Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island in the world, and to promote sovereignty the Canadian Government created an RCMP post there from 1926 to 1931 and 1945 to 1951. In between the
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Look! Up in the sky…
It's the Sun! A bit hazy/cloudy today, but there it is, back in Arctic Bay. An interesting note, typically our coldest month of weather comes now, after the return of the Sun.
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Here comes the Sun
The Sun returned to Arctic Bay today. I've never minded the dark season. It holds its own beauty and charms. Ever changing twilight; the dark, filled with stars that brush the earth; aurora; and still, cold, biting air. It is never completely dark all day, and goes by quickly,. The night lengthens at a busy
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The other way
Time lapse in more light. This time from the cabin to town.
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Getting there, the video
I thought I'd put up a short time lapse of a trip to the cabin, from our house, by road to Victor Bay and then over the sea ice to the cabin. Now that we're getting more light back, I should do a daylight version.
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Getting there
The cabin is on Victor Bay, over the hills from Arctic Bay. Now Victor Bay has an easily accessible area, about 4 kilometres by road over the town. Historically this is where people set up camp in the late spring and into summer. Because of its topography Arctic Bay is a bit of a solar
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The landslide brings you down.
The Saint George's Society Cliffs are one of my favourite places out here. Spectacular red vertical cliffs that jut 600 feet out of Adam's Sound, they are right around the corner from where I live. This time of year we are often found standing below them on the sea ice, especially at the Gyrfalcon aerie
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Nemesis no more
It may surprise some people, given where I live, that I have never seen a Snowy Owl up here. Oh I've seen them in the south, on one of their irruptions, but never up where they are a common breeding bird. But I've never travelled to where they commonly breed, and have relied on chance
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Pins on a map
This afternoon, as I walked from the plane to terminal in Iqaluit I looked back to a beautiful slim crescent moon, followed in the sky by Venus and Jupiter. As the sky has deepened tonight I can't seem to keep my eyes from drifting up to them. It is a nice way to (almost) end