Students On Ice Arctic 2009 – Off the Ice

Now that the Arctic 2009 trip is behind me and I’ve had a week or so at home to process and consider the experience, there’s a few things that have occurred to me that I think I’d like to share. The experience for me had several levels. On one level, there was simply the experience [...]

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Students On Ice – August 11th – Wrapping Up Trip

August 11th It’s been a few days since I wrote anything down. We’ve been touring around the south east coast of Baffin Island. We’ve had some cool things happen. We’ve stopped and done tours in a few different locations. We did a zodiac tour around a bird colony at Hanzsch Island which is home to [...]

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Students On Ice – Walrus, Bears & Whales oh my!

August 8th Today we awoke as we were cruising out of the fiord where we had spent the night in a quiet, non-rocking state. We were headed out for a place called Monumental Island, which we never got to. In the AM we started some workshops, and got about 20 minutes in when the day [...]

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Students On Ice – August 7th – Sea Ice

August 7th Today was Ice Day! We spent the morning cruising in sea ice and finding our way to a quiet harbour. The ship cruised through this amazing area of sea ice and all students were on deck watching for seals and polar bears as we approached the shoreline. We anchored in a harbour that [...]

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Students On Ice – August 5th – Bowheads!

August 5 We had a bit of an earlier start today, at 7 AM, but not as early as yesterday. We had planned to sail to the end of Cumberland Sound to look for beluga whales and walruses that were supposed to be there, but the wind had whipped up a swell at the end [...]

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Students On Ice – August 4th – Auyittuq

August 4th Auyittuq National Park Wow. Just wow. I’ve seen footage of this park before on TV and in magazines, but like anything, it doesn’t do it justice. Simply this might be the most dramatic and spectacular landscape that I’ve ever seen. I can’t think of any place else that I’ve visited that compares. It’s [...]

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Students On Ice August 2nd Sea Day

August 2nd Sea Day! We spent the day at sea, as we were not able to get in to the opening to Cumberland Sound the way that we had hoped to, so we had to sail further north to the north tip of the opening to the sound in order to find a gap in [...]

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Students On Ice – August 1st Part 2

August 1st – Part 2 First full day at sea, and what a day. The Hudson Strait was rocking and rolling with a pretty good swell, and the morning quite quickly turned sour for many people. There was a lot of horizontal positions today as seasickness took precedent for many of the students and quite [...]

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Students On Ice – August 1st

And we’re off! Big day yesterday, started at 5 AM in Ottawa and ended at 11PM in Ungava Bay cruising north. Our flight to Kuujuaq was good, and easy, and the community had a few things planned for us that we took part in. A celebratory send off and a BBQ were very well received [...]

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Students On Ice – August 18

I’ve been home for a few days now, and I’ve been trying to work up the brainpower to come up with some great posts that describe the trip to Baffin Island with SOI. Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to do it! So, in the interim, I’ll be posting the journal entries that I wrote while [...]

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