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The horizon
Just a bit of a heads up, that the annual Nunavut Blogging Awards, or the Nunies will be coming up in about a month's time. I'll let you know when nominations open, but it doesn't hurt to start thinking about who you'd like to see nominated this year. Unless there is some great hue and…
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Taking a stand and raising awareness
I don't know why I let these memes bother me as much as I do. Perhaps it is the sheeple nature of it all. Perhaps it is my general distaste for this lack of questioning of anything that appears online. It ranks right up there with me with the urban legends and hoaxes that fill…
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Because 73 degrees isn’t far enough north
It is contest time once again. Quark Tours is offering a chance for someone to “Blog Their Way to the North Pole”, and I am giving it a shot. The rules are fairly simple, the five entries with the most votes move to the next round, when a panel decides which one of those will…
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Somewhere in middle America
I'm always surprised, and more than a little amazed and humbled, when someone discovers the House and then procedes to read the entire thing from the start. Often it happens in a couple of sittings, lasting hours. I can't imagine that I would elicite that much interest. So out there in middle America, in Omaha,…
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Can I have my milkrun back?
So the milkrun from Baker Lake that I anticipated didn't come about as planned. Now normally that would be a good thing, but at the end of the day I spent more time travelling then if the original flights had fallen in to place. In order to escape traveling in the arctic with your sanity…
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Sundog days.
Lest you think that every day in Baker Lake was marked by zero visibilty and stifling winds, here is a photo taken from our conference room. Sundogs over Baker Lake.
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Baker Lake blogging confab
Baker Lake has several bloggers operating there. Which isn't surprising given how large the community is. Was anyone else surprised to learn that about 2400 people live there? If I'm not mistaken there are about 4 blogs that are active, but the blogger that I'm most familiar with is Jennith's. Jennith just celebrated her 5…
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Blizzard!
So I'm slowly settling in from my trip to Baker Lake. Trying to return my daily life back to non-travel rhythms. My last bit of luggage arrived last night (and in true northern tradition that "luggage" was a duct taped cardboard box filled with caribou meat). So it is time to revist some of my…
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Beat it, reprise
My first stint as a Beat writer at 10,000 Birds is up. 10,000 Birds is quite simply the 600 pound gorilla of Nature Blogging, widely read and a force in the wild bird enthusiast community. I'm honoured to be included in their cabal of Beat writers. An Arctic Primer is my introduction to my beat,…
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Milk and honey
One of the aspects of life up here is that if you are traveling anywhere, you're traveling by airplane. It is pretty much the only option. Certainly a goodly number of people go between communities by snowmobile, it is the only affordable option, but there are no roads, no buses, and for all intents and…
