Lots of rain but team head towards Cambridge Bay
The team are having difficulty sending blog entries but Stephen sent a few comments below about the latest situation, also Julie has been able to join them and is now travelling with the team:
August 17th 2008
Our position is 68 01 98N 107 40 26 W. 4 miles Southwest of Cape Croker at the entrance to Melville Sound. We are now beginning to track east across the underside of the Kent Peninsula. We’ve travelled 328 miles and have approximately 90 miles to go!
We had rough seas yesterday but as we were travelling in sheltered waters the waves were only about 2 feet. However had we been in the open sea they would have had to come off the water. We are making slower progress than we expected but hope to be at the portage point in 6/7 days. We hope to arrive in Cambridge Bay around 25th/26th August but that is dependent on the weather and the portage.
We are expecting to see some very interesting coastline coming up in the next few days - around the area called Kuururjuaq. Steep vertical rocky cliffs.
Yesterday we saw Bearded Seals and Wolverine and have seen the odd Caribou and just the one Bear!!! However we have seen significantly less wild life of any kind compared to last year -very few birds.
We arrived for the second time at the settlement at Bay Chimo very tired and wet and were welcomed into a local resident’s home with hot tea bannock and Caribou. We were given a lovely hospitable welcome and were invited to stay for the night in the warm and dry.
August 11th 2008
We are approximately 30 miles south of Bay Chimo. There’s been lots of rain and a thunder storm. We had our first encounter with a bear. We had just beached and saw a young bear. I fired a warning shot but it continued - another warning it continued ! another and it kept on ambling towards us but Glenn got a bit closer to it and we think it smelt his scent and turned tail.
