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Well Worth A Visit
Jennifer over at Nunablog has pointed me in the direction of a great blog with strong links to the Arctic. Canadian CKayaker isn’t primarily about the Arctic but Michael, it’s host, lived in Iglulik in the late 60’s and recently returned there for a sea qayaq trip. His stories and photos of Iglulik in 1968…
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Yesterday’s Great Backyard Bird Count
Well, the results are in from our count from yesterday and I’ll list all the species seen below: Raven Whew. The count was actually down from last year but we’ll see what today brings. I would doubt that there are less ravens around then before. Strangely, there were no ravens at the dump. None, nada,…
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Giving Up a Dream.
I’ve long wanted to navigate the Northwest Passage and when the opportunity to buy the Fort Hearne in Kugluktuk came up we did. It was primarily going to be a part of our tourism based business but there was the added benefits (for me anyway) of having strong historical connections with the RCMP in the…
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The Great Northland Fire Exinguisher Incident – Part three.
Link to Part one. As soon as I realized what had happened I dropped over the ridge, sliding to the bottom. Down below was a bush area, mostly thick black spruce, crisscrossed with trails. I quickly found his footprints and set off after him, but I quickly thought better of it, here was a fellow…
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Just some odds and ends.
Occasionally You Win One… The other night after some searching I managed to find a jeweler’s screwdriver and thought that I would tackle trying to fix Leah’s laptop. I was thinking that if it was something obvious that was loose I could save the hassle and expense of sending the laptop out for repairs. A…
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Happy Birthday Charles.
Today is the 198th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (and Abraham Lincoln also!). If you’re no longer an ape you have Mr. Darwin to thank. No, not really, but he is the origin of one of the biggest revolutionary leaps in Science, the explanation of the mechanics behind evolution. Sad to say that…
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I and the Bird #42 – The Beagle Edition
The current edition of I and The Bird combines two of my favourite passions, Birds and Charles Darwin. the Neurophilosopher takes us on two parellel journeys. One, along with Charles Darwin, on the second voyage of HMS Beagle, the other on the mythical IAT Beagle. Wonderfully illustrated with plates by Gould and Audobon, it is…
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The Great Northland Fire Exinguisher Incident – Part two.
Link to Part one. I have to admit that I was startled when I came around the corner to see Herman standing there. Nature has a way of showing us when something is dangerous, such as the bright colours of certain poisonous animals, or a rattlesnake’s rattle, or the look in this guy’s eyes. As…
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So these things come in threes do they Duncan?
Well the third shoe dropped last night. Travis knocked Leah’s laptop off the couch. I now know, unfortunately, what a "Kernal Panic" is. Alas it means some hardware problem, and my notes and draft of my book were on it. Hopefully a repair person at the least will be able to recover the data.
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The Great Northland Fire Exinguisher Incident – Part one.
The phone woke me up at 5:00 am, and my conversation with teleomns had me up and moving fast instantly. “Mark and Tracy are in a fight at the Northlands Hotel and they need help right away.” Out of bed in a flash, I pulled on socks, uniform pants and my soft body armor, not…
