10th Anniversary

April 1st, Nunavut celebrated its 10th year as its own territory. Clyde River marked the day with a picnic on the (obviously frozen) lake. Some teacher friends: Deborah, Mark and Ren and myself had the pleasure of a borrowed ski-doo & komatik to check out the action.

We were unfortunately late getting away so missed much of it, but had quite an exciting adventure onto the sea ice non the less. It was a little bumpy on the sled but so exhillarating to see civilization disappear as we became enveloped by the beautiful landscape. It was a feeling like no other to be on top of the frozen ocean with nothing but white as far as the eye could see. It's not everyday that you cruise by an icelocked boat on a ski-doo!

Looking out to sea...This crack in the ice combined with our being gunless and potentially on the polar bear's menu caused us to turn around. It's wild to imagine that come summer this morphs back into rolling waves!