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Sunday Drive.
We went for a drive yesterday to Nanisivik, partially to give someone a ride, partially to take some pictures of what’s left of Nanisivik for Stacy (who used to live there), but mostly because it was another beautiful fall day. Here are some pictures from the drive… Here is what is left of the mill.…
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Aa Aa
Oh no! My laptop is sick. The screen isn’t displaying anything. It is like the screen has gone into sleep mode and won’t come out. You can just barely make out anything that is on the screen. I’ve gone through all the steps on the support page of Apple’s but to no avail. So… the…
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Incident at Mickey’s Camp – Part five
Link to Part one While I waited at the cabin, two members from Southend Detachment headed south while the rest of our members headed north. Half of the ER Team continued on up the road while the other half stopped to clear the cabin. While I waited for them to arrive (they take a very…
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Incident at Mickey’s Camp – Part 4
Link to Part one The couple, a husband and wife, had been out boating that afternoon when they remembered the rhubarb from the cabin, and decided to stop in and pick some. The cabin was up a hill from the lake, and had been heavily boarded up, with planks and iron bars. As they walked…
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Full Moon over Arctic Bay
From a couple of nights ago…
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Grey Ice
Sea water freezes at about -3C, and up here the water is never really far from that temperature. As a result, even more than a month before we can expect Arctic Bay to freeze, on calm days without a lot of direct sun ice can start to form. This picture was taken this morning and…
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September’s First Friday
Today is the September’s Edition of First Friday over at Amy’s WildBird on the Fly. First Friday is a fiction writing contest for 500 word short stories on Birding. I fear that it hasn’t caught on as Amy had hoped as there were no entries for the August edition. If that is indeed the case…
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It’s back
Pete’s pond is back up. Now I’ll never get anything done.
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Henry Larson
The CCGS Henry Larson was at Arctic Bay over the long weekend. Thus far, we’ve seen three of the five icebreakers in the Eastern Arctic fleet (the Larson, Terry Fox and Des Grosslier). The Henry Larson is named for an iconic member of the RCMP.Supt. Henry Larson was born Norwegian but emigrated to Canada and…
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Two Words – Spruce Beer!
Here is our rather small sealift grocery order for this year (not half of what we could have ordered, what can I say.. money is tight). Still it did amount to $4200+. Two crates and 7 boxes of frozen (frozen isn’t pictured, it went to the freezer right away). About our only sealift story this…
