Nov
14
2008
Today was a little different from yesterday. The thermometer was only 5 degrees colder – about 20 degrees – but the 25mph winds made the wind chill about 8 degrees so we never lingered longer than we needed to with the windows open. The light snowy conditions from yesterday also turned into a lot of […]
Nov
13
2008
Here is a picture I took today. Let’s have some fun with it. Submit your best caption via the comments section here by the time I get home late Monday night. Whoever writes the best caption (e.g. most clever, funniest, etc.) will get an unframed print of any one picture of their choice in the […]
Nov
13
2008
On our first day out on the tundra, we were pretty lucky and saw a lot of activity. We left on the buggy about 8am and returned about 4pm which correlates pretty well with sunrise and sunset here. During that time, we saw many polar bears – probably a dozen or so. Two of them […]
Nov
12
2008
Ahoy from the balmy shores of the Hudson Bay. Seriously, we arrived in Churchill today and instead of the arctic blast I expected when we got off the plane, it was probably 25-30 degrees. Supposedly that’s very unusual. They’ve warned us that the rest of the time will be much windier and colder. That’s ok […]