Come See us: Arctic Bay in Canada’s High Arctic

•

Find us on Mastodon

  • -40

    I know I live in the Arctic, but -40 and below is just wrong.  I tell people all the time that it really is no colder here than the Prairies, and it’s true. It’s just colder longer.  Normally, we receive about a week of -40 weather up here each winter, and it was much the…

  • At last

    The sun has returned to Arctic Bay. I had the briefest of glimpses of it at lunch as it rose through the ice fog above the hills on the far side of Adam’s Sound, just before disappearing behind the hills of Arctic Bay. The House is situated such that we barely see any of it’s…

  • Vote for someone else.

    Alright, I sent the picture of me in a T-shirt to Nunavut Nonsense as a joke. It’s a contest to show "Your Spacesuit", the one you have to dress up in to stay warm outside. But I’ve garnered almost half of the votes so far (I suspect because Dan Rather is also in the picture…

  • Ikii

    It probably won’t come as a surprise to many people, but it’s cold in the High Arctic.  Actually, it’s really no colder than where I grew up in Manitoba, it’s just colder longer. And with much of the country in the grip of "Arctic Air" last week, I don’t think I’m going to generate much…

  • Hardly getting your bait back

    It isn’t often that babies are born in Arctic Bay. These days, actually for quite some time now, expectant mothers are flown out to Iqaluit, usually about a month before the due date. There is a logic to this of course, Iqaluit is much more equipped to deliver babies and to handle the emergencies that…

  • A Citizen Science Challenge

    The Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up.  This annual event (this is the eleventh) is put on by Audubon and Cornell, and takes place on the 15th to 18th of February this year.  Traditionally participation in Nunavut has been low, which is not really surprising given the dearth of species in Nunavut in February.…

  • And the winner is….

    or rather the winners are… The Nunies have been fun. It’s been really interesting visiting the nominated blogs, especially in the dying hours, as the plays for votes have come out.  The races were tight… especially in Best Blog and Best New Blog, it seemed like everytime I checked on the results the lead changed…

  • A friendly reminder…

    Don’t forget to vote for your favourite Nunavut Blogs and posts in the Nunies. The polls can be found at Nunavut Blogs!  All three races: Best Blog, Best New Blog and Best Post are very close so every vote counts. Voting closes at midnight tomorrow (Tuesday) night.

  • The other Vilcabamba story

    I’m not a really big fan of sleeping under a mosquito net. Oh I know of their utility, and the serious threat in many places by zoonotic diseases, but seriously if it wasn’t important I wouldn’t do it travelling in tropics. I just find them hot and stuffy, and lets face it, the tropics are…

  • Did the earth move?

    I’ve only been in one earthquake. It was disappointing. Only days after the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 Janice and I were in Vilcabamba Ecuador. It had been a little surreal watching the destruction played on the news on a TV set in Cuenca Ecuador, and staying in a little cabin on the mountains overlooking…