The airport in Kugluktuk |
Typical street in Kugluktuk |
There's no restaurants in Kug, so pizza pops at the Co-op it is |
This is Todd's old office, so I pretend to be him for a while |
The LSSL, which I just got off of after 3 weeks at sea |
Hanging out on the hill above Kug while waiting for our flight |
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Loading the charter plane in Inuvik |
Here's what we are flying to Victoria Island |
Well there was lots of leg room and self service on the milk and granola bars infront of me |
Welcome to Holman on Victoria Island. We stay a few hours while the plane does a dangerous cargo load up to the mining camp that we will be heading to |
View of Holman |
Todd and me |
The Northern Food Guide. Note the suggestion of fish bones, whales, seals, and so on |
The mining base camp. It was to be home for a few days, but that turned into many days after the plane was damaged and there was no way out |
Cores |
Sampling the dirt for contamination |
One of the mining sites in operation. These run 24 hours as it never gets dark in the summer |
Discussion of the cooling water for this mining site |
Base camp from above |
Reagan and myself in the helicopter |
These plants are favoured by the muskox -- tastes sort of like rhubarb |
Muskox skull |
Wolf print in a puddle |
Up and close with the Muskox |
Arctic cotton |
Fox |
Me next to the helicopter |
Slabs of marble -- nice! |
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A dead Muskox. Not much eats these things as it is very hard to get to the meat under all the fur |
Muskox skeleton |
Todd's horrible crash |
Victoria Island is filled with abandoned caches of fuel from decades ago. Some mining exploration, some military, but now it all needs to be cleaned up |
Wildflowers |
A bumblebee |
Food from a old exploration camp. Likely 30+ years old and still edible due to the dry cold conditions. Kinda like the 60 year old chocolate bars that I ate from Antarctica in 2003! |
Colourful mosses |
Really cool black moss |
Cariboo near base camp |
More Arctic cotton |
There really isn't too much to see, just empty nothingness as far as the eye can see |
Heading home with old (and still filled) propane cylinders in the passenger compartment |
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The igloo church in Inuvik |
Grass |
And of course a Geocache in Inuvik! |
