It’s further north than we’ve been and there were very few plants here. But there’s plenty of seaweed and amongst the seaweed near shore you can see a lot of small sea creatures.
We took a four kilometre walk along the shore to the point in the far distance.
There were some Inuit whalebone houses that they used as winter dwellings centuries ago.
We walked a lot further before we reached the point where the whalers had encamped. There are about five tent rings in the photo.
This area must be very dry, as plants only exist in hollows in most of the area.
In the afternoon we went to Prince Leopold Island and took the zodiacs around it. The first glimpse of it shows ow flat it is in the distance.
This island is mainly sheer cliffs and hundreds of thousands of birds nest on the cliffs. This was the end of the season, and only a few are left (in comparison) but the cliffs were definitely alive with birds.
We couldn’t go around the island as there was pack ice. As we went back to the ship we noticed a Canadian coast guard vessel in the pack ice between Prince Leopold Island and the next one over. Evidently there had been a mayday that it responded to.
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